Patientâs TB Is Less Severe Than Originally Thought
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Doctors said that the man who caused an international health scare would still require as much as two years of treatment.
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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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Old drugs, outdated tests, empty promises, new threats. Such is the bleak reality surrounding an international tuberculosis conference opening Thursday in a city scarred by a killer combination of TB and AIDS: an already nightmarish scenario worsened by the spread of virtually untreatable strains.
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NEW YORK  - The results of the first early  test of a new type of tuberculosis vaccine show that it elicits  strong immune responses in adults with or without a previous  bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccination.
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In interviews, many experts generally supported actions by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the case of Andrew Speaker, the traveling lawyer who was diagnosed with tuberculosis.
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New tests show that the multiple-drug-resistant TB is still dangerous, but susceptible to more drug treatments.
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In one study, smaller doses were injected under the skin, but the vaccine wasn&#39;t as effective in older participants. BY MARILYNN MARCHIONE.
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A US TB patient who triggered a health scare by boarding transatlantic flights says sorry to fellow passengers.
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A man infected with a drug-resistant form of TB knew he was not supposed to travel overseas but did so anyway, the CDC said today, potentially exposing others to the disease. The man who is quarantined in an Atlanta hospital, however, told a newspaper that health officials who informed him he was infected said they "preferred" he not travel.
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U.S. border officials are changing their procedures after an embarrassing incident allowed a patient with a dangerous form of tuberculosis into the country.
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Father-in-law of US patient who flew to Europe  with tuberculosis researches diseases.
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The strain of tuberculosis infecting Andrew Speaker, the Atlanta lawyer who was the object of an international hunt by public health authorities in May, turns out not to be as dangerous as doctors originally thought.
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New research gives hope for successfully treating tuberculosis in a few months rather than the six months or more currently needed to beat the contagious lung disease, doctors reported Tuesday.
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The man quarantined for a drug-resistant form of tuberculosis settled in Saturday for what could be a two-month hospital stay by taking antibiotics and fielding phone calls.
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InfoWorld - E-mail archiving and recovery software has proved itself useful in the case of the American who flew to Europe even though he had tuberculosis (TB).
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A drug treatment combination can reduce deaths from tuberculosis meningitis by up to a third, scientists believe.
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The problem of multidrug-resistant TB may be even more severe than previously thought, experts warn.