{"id":208,"date":"2007-04-01T00:07:34","date_gmt":"2007-04-01T04:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg-development\/?p=208"},"modified":"2013-02-15T12:39:31","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T17:39:31","slug":"xdr-tuberculosis-the-new-international-health-regulations-and-human-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/2007\/04\/01\/xdr-tuberculosis-the-new-international-health-regulations-and-human-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"XDR Tuberculosis, the New International Health Regulations, and Human Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/files\/2013\/02\/Calain-and-Fidler_XDR-Tuberculosis-the-New-International-Health-Regulations-and-Human-Rights.pdf\">XDR Tuberculosis, the New International Health Regulations, and Human Rights\u2028<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Philippe Calain and David P. Fidler<\/p>\n<p>Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) is the latest emerging disease recognized as a global health threat. It has so far been identified in at least 27 countries covering all regions of the world except Oceania. A cohort of patients was investigated in 2005-2006 in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa, revealing an exceedingly high mortality rate and a rapidly fatal evolution among identified XDR-TB cases. Such alarming features of this new form of tuberculosis seem to relate at least partly to HIV co-infection. We should, unfortunately, expect the initial spread of XDR-TB to affect HIV-hyperendemic countries, with the South-African subcontinent potentially confronting significant burdens from increasing cases, fatalities, and their attendant costs. The urgency of the XDR-TB threat can be sensed in some experts\u2019 calls for compulsory isolation of cases, leading if necessary to forcible detention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>XDR Tuberculosis, the New International Health Regulations, and Human Rights\u2028 Philippe Calain and David P. Fidler Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) is the latest emerging disease recognized as a global health threat. It has so far been identified in at least 27 countries covering all regions of the world except Oceania. A cohort of patients was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":585,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,29],"tags":[388],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-rights","category-international-health-regulations","tag-tuberculosis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/585"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1997,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions\/1997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}