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Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Outbreak In Marshall Islands: Health Emergency Declared
The number of people in the western Pacific nation with the drug-resistant disease has risen from six to 10 in less than two months and there are fears it will spread further with health officials tracking an estimated 500 contacts.
"We are in the process of doubling the bed capacity" in the TB isolation unit, said Majuro Hospital chief of staff Marie Lanwi-Paul.
"It's still too early to tell how many will need to be isolated for drug-resistant TB," the doctor said.
Rachel Powell of the US Centers for Disease Control, which is working with the World Health Organisation to coordinate the response to the newly identified strain, described the escalating situation as "a public health emergency."
"Drug resistance poses a serious threat to our ability to treat and control TB," she said.
Marshall Islands Health Minister Amenta Matthew said she was drafting legislation to give the director of health power to quarantine people who did not voluntarily comply with TB prevention requirements.
She said the development of drug-resistant TB was due largely to the refusal of patients to take medicines despite the counselling efforts of physicians.
"Currently, there are patients who continuously move around the community with TB disease posing the threat of exposing others to the disease," she said.
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