Other statistics of note include: 85% of the youngsters said a woman would make a good President while 96% said that a person of color should have a turn in the White House.
Directly observed therapy certainly helps to improve outcomes in MDR-TB and should be considered an integral part of the treatment of MDR-TB. Response to treatment must be obtained by repeated sputum cultures (monthly if possible).
In the days before antibiotics, TB patients would go to sanitariums for rest and fresh air. Since the discovery of antibiotics, TB rates have declined dramatically but the disease is still a major health problem around the world, causing some 1.7 million deaths a year.