Translation of "Tuberculose résistante aux médicaments " (French → English) :

- A subset of drug-resistant bacteria is responsible for about 25,000 human deaths annually.

- A subset of drug-resistant bacteria is responsible for about 25,000 human deaths annually.

The ECDC issued a threat assessment, concluding that the infectiousness of the patient was very low and that there was no evidence of XDR-TB being more transmissible than drug-sensitive TB.

The most important disease incidents notified during 2007 by the EU’s Early Warning and Response System (EWRS), set up by Decision No 2119/98/EC[19], were related to: the Chikungunya fever outbreak in Italy, haemorrhagic fever caused by Ebola Virus in Uganda, an HBV vaccine adverse event in Vietnam, the multidrug resistant tuberculosis incident affecting a US citizen travelling from the US to the EU, a Salmonella Tennessee event, and a legionellosis event involving EU tourists in Thailand.

On 21 February 2001, the Commission adopted a communication to the European Parliament and to the Council on accelerated action targeted at major communicable diseases within the context of poverty reduction, according to which the Commission was instructed, inter alia, to establish a global tiered pricing system for key pharmaceuticals for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria and related diseases for the poorest developing countries and to prevent product diversion of these products to other markets by ensuring that effective safeguards were in place.

Furthermore, the emergence of resistant strains of tuberculosis, linked to HIV/AIDS, poor compliance with treatment prescriptions, or irrational prescriptions, threatens to make existing drugs ineffective world-wide.