16 days to a month ... and when do you become contagious? I'd like to know, because:

Tuberculosis is airborne and stays in the air for four hours after an infected person leaves the room.

Well, at least we're getting good reporting of the research, right?

However, there was not a single representative of South Africa's National Department of Health present, reportedly under orders from Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala Msimang. Sources in her department claim she is furious that news of the extent of South Africa's XDR TB problem has leaked.

Officials from her department have also phoned doctors at the 28 hospitals in KwaZulu-Natal which have or have had XDR TB-infected patients, and warned them not to speak to the media or to allow them onto their premises or to take photographs - or risk losing their jobs.

Oh. :-(

Well how bad is it, really, that she doesn't want anyone talking about it?

About 75 percent of South Africans are TB-infected.

Yeah, I guess if I were responsible for the health of my country, and three-quarters of its people had TB, I wouldn't want people talking to the press either.