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One-month-old twins could be the youngest drug-resistant TB patients in Mumbai | Mumbai News

MUMBAI: A Kandivli couple’s joy at having twins after IVF treatment was tinged with sadness as their boys were diagnosed with drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) during Diwali when they were barely a month old.Their case points to a worrisome pattern of drug-resistant TB in infants. The state-run JJ Hospital’s NICU, where the twins—possibly the youngest in…

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Nightmare bacteria: Deadly drug-resistant pathogen spreading fast in US – All you need to know

Infections caused by drug-resistant “nightmare bacteria” are rising rapidly in the United States, with cases increasing nearly 70 percent between 2019 and 2023, according to scientists at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The findings, published Monday in the Annals of Internal Medicine, warn of the growing threat from bacteria carrying the…

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