Drug-resistant TB infects as many as 32,000 kids globally, study finds

Monday, March 24, 2014 - 10:30 in Health & Medicine

As many as 32,000 children worldwide become sick each year with a drug-resistant "superbug" strain of tuberculosis, according to new estimates by U.S. researchers that for the first time quantify rates of this difficult-to-treat form of TB.

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