Brummie clubber killed by bovine TB

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/11/bovine_tb_outbreak/

 

 

Brummie clubber killed by bovine TB

By Lester Haines

11th October 2006

 

An outbreak of bovine TB in Birmingham earlier this

year which infected six clubbers was traced to a man

who drank " untreated, unpasteurised milk " , the BBC

reports.

 

The half-dozen infectees - susceptible to infection

due to weakened immune systems caused by disease such

as diabetes or HIV - were " thought to have all picked

it up at a bar and nightclub " . One woman subsequently

died.There is growing concern that drug-resistant TB

strains of tuberculosis in eastern Europe and central

Asia are " putting EU states at risk of a deadly

outbreak " , the BBC notes.

 

The World Health Organisation confirmed the " hottest

zones " of new strains all lie on the EU's borders,

while the Red Cross described the threat as " the most

alarming tuberculosis situation since World War II " . ®

 

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