What is multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB)?
You may have heard of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), but what is it? MDR-TB is just ike TB as it is explained above, it has the same symptoms and you get it in the same way as TB. It is no more infectious than common TB. Indeed, it very similar in every way except that the tablets usually used to treat common TB don’t work as well and different TB tablets and injections need to be used for two years. MDR-TB is very serious as it is harder to cure. Let me try to explain. The germs that cause TB, like you and me, are living things. And like all living things they don’t want to be killed. Sometimes TB germs can start to understand how the medicines usually used against them work. This happens when someone with TB misses times when they should take tablets as the TB doctor or nurse told them to. When someone with TB misses their tablets it creates gaps when the TB germs have extra time to understand and learn how the tablets work. When TB germs know how the medicines work it ca
