The rise of drug-resistant TB in India and China could derail the WHO’s goal of halving the 1990 death rate. Asia correspondent A Nair reports on the growing problem.
Tuberculosis, which kills around 1,000 people a day in India, has acquired a steely edge. Totally drug-resistant TB has been found in India, the second country after Iran to report that a section of its population has contracted the deadly form of the disease.
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