By Lee Reichman, with Janice Hopkins Tanne. 250 pp. New York, McGraw-Hill, 2001. $24.95. ISBN 0-07-135924-9.
If you wanted to cause an epidemic of multidrug-resistant tuberculosisin a country, what would you do? First, you would create a socialand economic environment that promotes poverty and inequity.Second, you would temporarily subject those who have infectioustuberculosis to squalid and overcrowded conditions, let themmix with an uninfected population, and then release them backinto the general population. Third, you would provide just enoughtreatment to prevent those who have the disease from dying butnot enough to cure them, so that they would remain infectiouslonger. Fourth, you would provide inadequate treatment, guaranteedto create . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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