Untreatable form of tuberculosis has emerged.The World Health Organization warns that a virtually untreatable Un`treat´a`ble a. 1. Incapable of being treated; not practicable. form of tuberculosis has emerged and can now be found in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , Eastern Europe Eastern Europe The countries of eastern Europe, especially those that were allied with the USSR in the Warsaw Pact, which was established in 1955 and dissolved in 1991. , and Africa. Currently TB causes about 1.7 million deaths a year worldwide and the incidence of extreme drug-resistant TB--strains resistant not only to frontline front·line also front line n. 1. A front or boundary, especially one between military, political, or ideological positions. 2. Basketball See frontcourt. 3. Football The linemen of a team. drugs but also three or more of the secondline drugs--has increased dramatically. Karen Ann Gajewski is a freelance editor and an editorial consultant to the Humanist. |
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