Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Threatens Control of Drug-Resistant TB
Russia’s Invasion of #Ukraine Threatens Control of Drug-Resistant #TB. Previous decades have seen an epidemic of MDR-TB in Russia & former Soviet countries, including Ukraine. Drug resistance thrives on fractured health systems & sporadic medicine supply. TB is an infectious disease spread through coughing. It has killed more people than any other single infectious agent in history, including SARS-CoV-2. More difficult to treat are multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) and extensi