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	World TB Day 2012 website goes live Progress in the global fight against TB cannot wait, and this year's campaign - Stop TB in my lifetime - conveys the urgency of the fight. 2012 is a critical year. There are now just three years remaining to meet the MDG (Millennium Development Goals) targets and those of the Global Plan to Stop TB. On the World TB Day 2012 website you will find key messages, downloadable slogans, a helpful guide for planning a World TB Day event in the six official languages of the World Health Organization (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish); and four downloadable posters. World TB Day is on 24 March 2012...

	India reports first cases of 'total drug-resistant tuberculosis' The Telegraph covers India’s first reported cases of ‘total drug-resistant tuberculosis’, a virtually untreatable form of the disease. Highly resistant cases have been documented in Italy and Iran since 2003. These have mostly been limited to impoverished areas and not widely spread. The Indian hospital that saw the recent initial cases, tested a variety of medicines and none of them worked. A TB expert from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention commented that they do appear to be totally resistant to available drugs...

	New guidelines to control GAS infections in UK hospitals The Health Protection Agency (HPA) together with the group A streptococcal (GAS) Working Group has launched new guidelines for the investigation, control and prevention of GAS infection in acute healthcare settings, including maternity units, in the UK. Although general guidelines for controlling infections in healthcare settings exist, these new guidelines will give hospitals clear, evidence-based advice on how to minimise the risk of spread of GAS infections in hospitals and maternity settings such as midwife-led units...

	Protect your child against whooping cough, urges PHA The Public Health Agency (PHA) is reminding parents of the importance of their children completing the childhood immunisation programme to help prevent serious disease and illness following a reported increase of whooping cough (pertussis) cases in England and Wales. Pertussis (whooping cough) is a disease that can cause long bouts of coughing and choking which can make it hard to breathe. It is accompanied by the characteristic ‘whoop’ sound as the child gasps for breath after coughing. In England and Wales, cases of whooping cough reported to the Health Protection Agency (HPA) have more than doubled, from 421 cases in 2010 to 1040 in 2011...

	New objectives set to reduce MRSA and C.difficile New ambitions have been set for the NHS which build on the progress made on infections last year. The NHS is being asked to collectively reduce the numbers of infections in 2012-13 on MRSA by a further 29 per cent and Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) by 17 per cent. If delivered it would bring annual numbers of MRSA bloodstream infections down to 880 and reduce C difficile infections from 19,754 to 16,100...

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