[The Guardian] - US aid cuts could create untreatable TB bug ‘resistant to everything we have’
Kat Lay

Dangerous new forms of #tuberculosis (TB) for which there is no treatment could emerge as a result of #USAID cuts, a top doctor has warned.

Dr Lucica Ditiu, who heads the Stop TB Partnership, said she feared that interruptions to people’s treatment would allow the airborne bug to mutate into a new, untreatable form.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/mar/10/us-aid-cuts-tuberculosis-tb-untreatable-bug-drug-resistance-stop-tb-partnership-who?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu

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