MYANMAR FACING 'URGENT' DRUG-RESISTANT TB THREAT

News from The Associated Press: "YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Twice a month, Min Naing Oo visits emaciated patients at a Myanmar clinic, urging them through his face-mask to keep taking their medicine no matter how sick it makes them. Otherwise they will die - and fuel the spread of drug-resistant tuberculosis in a country that is already tallying an estimated 9,000 new infections of the hard-to-treat strain every year."