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The dilemma of a deadly disease: patients may be forcibly detained
But doctors believe there have been hundreds, possibly thousands, more and the numbers are growing among the millions of people with HIV, who are particularly vulnerable to the disease. Their fear is that patients with XDR-TB, told that there is little that can be done for them, will leave the isolation wards and go home to die. But while they are still walking around they risk spreading the infection.
Related: ‘Virtually untreatable’ TB found - Prevention and Treatment of Tuberculosis in the Coming Century - UN Special Envoy warns of deadly synergy between TB and HIV
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