Chiara Goia Wall Street's yearslong effort to overcome tuberculosis JournalRahima Sheikh left, eventually almost untreatable. He seems to Scan the Mumbai slum she shares with her husband and daughter.By Geeta Anand
This weekend, the Wall Street Journal has a story and Rahima Sheikh, one of India's first documented cases of tuberculosis that is resistant to almost all drugs approved to treat it.
In the past six years, the 40-year-old Mrs Sheikh attached to his family's rice fields, a father and a brother's life savings and crisscrossed India in search of a cure for tuberculosis. But instead of getting healthier, Mrs Sheikh grew increasingly resistant to medication for every failed treatment.
His six-year travel completely but incurable TB exposes blind spot in the Indian medical bureaucracy, which for decades, neglected extensive testing or treatment for drug-resistant strains.
As a result of curable disease has mutated into killer-danger the global community is concerned. Health officials have urged India and other countries increasingly drug resistance the louder. And this year, the British Indian list of countries whose citizens a visa for at least six months have to be tested for tuberculosis.
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