NY Times article (2/5/10)

 

"The situation has gone from bad to worse because the earthquake set off a dangerous diaspora. Most of the sanatorium's several hundred surviving patients fled and are now living in the densely packed cities where experts say they are probably spreading the disease. Most of these patients have also stopped taking  their daily regimen of pills, therby heightening the chance that there will be an outbreak of a strain resistant to treatment, experts say."