By Lelethu Mquqo
24 March 2011
The World Health Organisation has warned on World TB Day that the number of cases of the multi-drug resistant strain of the disease will reach 2 million by 2015 if they are left unchecked.
The number of the hard-to-treat strains of the lung disease has doubled in recent years.
More than 400-thousand cases of TB were identified in South Africa in 2009.
The Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal account for almost half of all cases.
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