
Can an infectious disease that is only successfully treated in 48% of cases not be on the rise?
That’s exactly what the WHO has been proposing. And that 48% success rate only relates to the cases that are treated: according to the WHO's own estimates those who see treatment are probably as few as 10% of all of the disease's victims (and they may well be even less). The idea that such a disease isn't on the rise surely defies both the laws of logic and the laws of epidemiology. We’re talking about MDR-TB (and also XDR-TB) here, the two most dangerously lethal parts of t