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An article about the dangers of new strains of drug-resistant TB wrongly said that Dr Paul Nunn, co-ordinator of the World Health Organisation's global TB response, is its head. Dr Mario Raviglione is head of that programme. The passage referring to the treatment of TB and the assertion that an undiagnosed TB-infected person can infect 10 others a year appeared to be a quote from Dr Nunn. We are happy to confirm that these are not his words and the quotation marks were applied in error during the editing process. Another quote from Dr Nunn had him saying that the battle against drug-resistant TB in places such as the former Soviet Union was lost. He meant, rather, to say that drug-resistant strains of TB have already replaced previously drug-sensitive ones in eastern Europe ("Fears of global TB epidemic as drugs fail to curb new strains", News, last week). Our leader "Return of a global killer needs a concerted global response" drew on a WHO press release which referred to comments by Dr Raviglione relating to the British government's reluctance to comply with international standards and the need for greater co-operation between departments. The WHO has asked us to make it clear that Dr Raviglione was referring to conditions in the 1990s and not to the situation today.

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