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According to reports, tuberculosis cases are falling dramatically in the United States, but drug-resistant strains of the disease are rising in other areas of the world.

The Los Angeles Times reported on Sunday that the U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported U. S. cases of the disease fell by 11.8 percent in 2009, the largest yearly drop since monitoring began in 1953.

Silver is showing as two down weeks at its level of 16.99$.

The state Department of Community Health says that a bacterial infection that has sickened at least eight people in southeast Michigan has been traced to raw milk.

The Detroit Free Press has reported that the department issued a public health alert Friday about milk distributed through Family Farms Cooperative in Vandalia, Mich.

It has been identified that the illnesses reported in Wayne, Washtenaw and Macomb counties is campylobacter. The symptoms include high fever, abdominal cramps and nausea, and can last as long as two weeks.

Gold is ended the week not far from where it closed last Friday at 1107$. The soft close is disappointing considering the unit spent most of the week above the 100 day moving average at 1119$. We have had 3 consecutive lower highs over the last 3 weeks starting with 1145$, 1138$ and this weeks 1133$. We are officially neutral Gold at these levels. Now support for the gold MCX is seen at 16493 and below could see a test of 16479. Resistance is now likely to be seen at 16517, a move above could see prices testing 16527.

Trading Ideas:

Gold trading range is 16479-16527.

Gold is pressured by a strong U.S. dollar and rate hike in India

A bioethicist warns that more marriages between first cousins in Britain are leading to more children born with genetic diseases.

The Times of London has reported that Ruth Deech, who sits in the House of Lords as Baroness Deech and chaired the Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority for eight years, plans to call for a government campaign against the practice.

Marriage between close relatives, common in Britain's large Pakistani community, deters integration of immigrants and their families into the larger community, Deech further argues.