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Monday, March 19, 2012

Welcome to the 21st Century

Enjoy that next generation iPad. We've got your 5G tuberculosis right here:

The WHO has convened a special meeting on Wednesday to discuss whether the emergence of TB strains that seem to be resistant to all known medicines merits a new class definition of "totally drug-resistant TB", or TDR-TB.

I've just about accepted that my childhood vision of space colonies and flying cars wouldn't arrive in the fantastical far-off year of 2000, but this is ridiculous.