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Kenya battles new Tuberculosis strain

Two patients in the last one year have been diagnosed with a new borderline strain of Tuberculosis (TB)  in Kenya, The Standard on Saturday has exclusively learnt.

Known as pre-XDR TB, this strain is resistant to one form of the drugs used to treat Multi-Drug Resistant TB and could graduate to the more infectious form known as XDR-TB if left untreated.

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