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Some patients with XDR-TB responding to treatment: team
- The team of expert doctors sent by the Central government for inspection in the city, after 12 cases of
Total Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (TDR-TB) were detected, said that it cannot be called TDR-TB but it is the case of extra-Extensively Drug Resistant (XDR) TB.- “There is no such situation of TDR [Total Drug Resistance]. It is not accepted anywhere internationally, neither does the World Health Organisation say that. One or the other drug will work,”
- Clinical tests may not always be right in this respect. The laboratory tests may say the person is not responding to these drugs, but the person shows improvement when he continuously keeps on taking those drugs
- The team discarded the need to isolate the affected patients.
Campaign to conserve palm leaf manuscripts
- A mission is on to conserve palm leaf manuscripts carrying priceless information on curing several diseases that affect human beings and also animals. These manuscripts given in detail the various herbs that can be used to cure these diseases.
- Only 20 per cent of the total palm leaf manuscripts in Tamil Nadu are physically available as nearly 80 per cent of them have been destroyed, according to the forum.
- They were also trying their level best to digitize the copies of palm leaf manuscripts
