Exciting New Global Pandemic Promises Universal Doom

Wait a minute -- a drug-resistant form of tuberculosis that kills people in TWO WEEKS? How can that possibly be true? I can't even get through my blogroll in two weeks! This is sci-fi disaster-catastrophe territory: ninety-eight percent of us will be dead by 2008 and the survivors will be coughing up chunks of lung as we thumb through vintage paperbacks of George Stewart's EARTH ABIDES....