Patient has low chance of spreading TB
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The Atlanta lawyer quarantined with a dangerous strain of tuberculosis has a relatively low chance of spreading the disease, possibly allowing him to leave his isolation room for a short time, hospital officials said Tuesday.
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A man with a rare and exceptionally dangerous form of tuberculosis has been placed in quarantine by the U.S. government after possibly exposing passengers and crew on two trans-Atlantic flights this month, health officials said Tuesday.
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Father-in-law of US patient who flew to Europe  with tuberculosis researches diseases.
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The U.S. tuberculosis patient who was legally isolated after fleeing across international borders does not have the most dangerous form of TB but instead a strain that is easier to treat, his doctors said on Tuesday.
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Scientists believe they have found a tuberculosis (TB) drug that could succeed where others are failing. Although it is still at a very early stage of testing, the antibiotic appears to work much faster than other TB drugs and treats resistant strains.
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ATLANTA, June 12 -- Health officials trying to stop a globetrotting honeymooner with a dangerous form of tuberculosis got little assistance from his lawyer father and his future father-in-law, a TB expert who not only balked at stopping the Greek wedding but attended the ceremony himself, accordi...
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The lawyer infected with a dangerous form of tuberculosis who sparked an international hunt when he eluded health authorities insisted on Wednesday that he had never been told he posed a risk to others.
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An older antibiotic once used against tuberculosis but since abandoned may work to treat the most common and actively contagious form of the disease more quickly, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
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A Forsyth Central High School student has been diagnosed with tuberculosis by officials from the state Health Department. The 11th-grader has not attended school since Sept.
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Federal health authorities are looking for people who may have been exposed aboard a plane to someone infected with a drug-resistant form of tuberculosis known as XDR-TB.
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US officials quarantine a man with a dangerous form of tuberculosis and urge fellow air travellers to be tested.
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A Denver hospital is expected to announce Tuesday that it has diagnosed Andrew Speaker -- the Atlanta lawyer whose travels while suffering from tuberculosis drew international attention -- with a more treatable form of the disease than the extensively drug-resistant form previously diagnosed, CNN has learned.
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The federal government last week detained and quarantined an Atlanta man who had spent nearly two weeks traveling in the United States, Canada and Europe with "extensively drug-resistant" tuberculosis, a rare and often fatal form of the infection, officials said yesterday.
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The patient who took two trans-Atlantic flights while infected with extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis arrived in Denver on his way to the National Jewish Medical and Research Center. via WMTW
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African immigrants with low levels of vitamin D are much more likely to be infected with tuberculosis, a finding that suggests the vitamin may help prevent and treat TB, Australian researchers said on Monday.
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Passengers on two trans-Atlantic flights may have been exposed to a man infected with an exceptionally dangerous form of tuberculosis.
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The highly dangerous form of tuberculosis that has infected a man now in quarantine resists almost all drugs used to treat TB, leaving only less effective options.