NATION IN BRIEF : GEORGIA : Drug-Resistant TB Strains Hard to Treat

Outbreaks of potentially deadly drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis could become increasingly hard to combat as they spread among AIDS victims and others with weakened immune systems, an expert said. Outbreaks already have occurred in New York City, Michigan, Florida and in the New York state prison system. Dr. Dixie Snider of the federal Centers for Disease Control told a conference in Atlanta that most cases of TB can be cured with standard drug treatment but some strains that are increasingly prevalent in the United States resist those drugs.