![]() Suddenly, drug resistant TB was on everyone’s radar. ![]() “But this,” he said, referring to his letter, “this just took off. “You write a good article, four to five people will ask you for reprints and it dies its natural death,” Udwadia told me when I met him in his clinic in the summer of 2015. Hinduja Hospital announced that they had identified the first cases of totally drug-resistant tuberculosis in India. Zarir Udwadia and his team at Mumbai’s P.D. What would it mean to awaken to a post-antibiotic future, to a world in which the promise of cure has come undone? In December of 2011, a two-page letter appearing in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases threatened to rouse even the deepest of sleepers from their reverie. From left to right: poster from Christian Medical College, Vellore (accessed via US National Library of Medicine) logo from Government of India’s Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) and poster from a series developed by the Indian Development Foundation, an NGO.įigure 2: Clippings from Indian newspaper reports on the emergence of totally drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis in India. ![]() ![]() Figure 1: Propaganda materials rehearsing the curability of tuberculosis are produced by a variety of institutional actors across India. ![]()
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