{"id":703084,"date":"2010-03-26T18:28:57","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T22:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2011453376_thepersistenceoftuberculosis.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2010-03-26T18:28:57","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T22:28:57","slug":"the-persistence-of-tuberculosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/703084","title":{"rendered":"The persistence of tuberculosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Congress needs to act<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Your article on tuberculosis [\u201cWashington saw rise in number of TB cases,\u201d NWThursday, March 25] points out that the disease has increased in Washington state, and that we have the drug-resistant variety too.<\/p>\n<p>In 2008, 150,000 people around the world died from drug-resistant TB. In 1999, a Washington man was cured of multidrug-resistant TB \u2014 at the cost of $500,000 and four years of treatment, including many hospitalizations.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, some county health departments have nearly gone bankrupt treating patients with drug-resistant TB. While Congress has authorized money to make a difference with this disease, thus far they have failed to appropriate much. Hopefully, Congress will act now, while it is still possible to control TB.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Bob Dickerson, Seattle<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress needs to act Your article on tuberculosis [\u201cWashington saw rise in number of TB cases,\u201d NWThursday, March 25] points out that the disease has increased in Washington state, and that we have the drug-resistant variety too. In 2008, 150,000 people around the world died from drug-resistant TB. In 1999, a Washington man was cured [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1735,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-703084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2WU4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1735"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}