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'Super-TB' created by scientists -

A virulent form of tuberculosis was created in the laboratory by experts trying to alter its genetic structure.
The mutant form of the bug multiplied more quickly, and was more lethal than its natural counterpart.

Researchers from the University of California at Berkeley, US, had actually been trying to disable genes and make the bacterium less deadly.

Untreatable tuberculosis rampant in Russia - "Tuberculosis, long ago subdued by Western doctors, is not only rampant in Russia but increasingly mutating into terrifying new forms that even the most powerful new medicines cannot kill."