TB quarantine raises legal questions
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The case of a jet-setting tuberculosis patient might soon shift from the hospital wards to the courts. The patient, Andrew Speaker, an Atlanta personal injury attorney, could sue the federal government for being quarantined on the basis of federal regulations that some scholars see as unconstitutional.
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An Atlanta lawyer with a potentially deadly contagious disease talks about a journey that has triggered fear and outrage.
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Doctors treating the Atlanta attorney with tuberculosis who touched off an international health scare have decided to reclassify his type of TB, officials said Tuesday.
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There is a tuberculosis alert at the Causeway Hospital, after a member of staff contracts a rare form of the disease.
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A lawyer infected with a contagious and deadly strain of tuberculosis claimed today that he returned to the US in defiance of a flight ban because he had been abandoned to die in an Italian hospital.
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The globe-trotting American lawyer who caused an international public health incident by traveling while infected with tuberculosis has a less severe form of the disease than previously diagnosed, a federal health official said Tuesday.
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US health officials begin a worldwide search to find people who may have come into contact with a TB carrier.
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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 earlier this month, federal health officials said Tuesday.
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The United States has placed in isolation a man who may have exposed fellow passengers and crew on two May trans-Atlantic flights to a tuberculosis strain that is extremely hard to treat, officials said on Tuesday.
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Legal action is launched over a row about whether a new hospital plans to leave enough space between beds to prevent the spread of infections.
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Public-health and homeland-security officials admitted to slip-ups in their handling of the Andrew Speaker TB case. Will the government be ready next time?
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Scientists have found evidence of a peril that human ancestors encountered in their migrations out of Africa: tuberculosis.
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Tuberculosis, one of the oldest known infectious diseases, is now the leading cause of death for people with AIDS, causing concern that the deadly combination could become a health crisis in both the United States and abroad.
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A man with a rare and dangerous form of tuberculosis ignored doctors' advice and took two trans-Atlantic flights, leading to the first U.S. government-ordered quarantine since 1963, health officials said Tuesday.
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A man infected with a dangerous strain of tuberculosis who was forcibly isolated after traveling across much of Europe is not likely to have been highly infectious, U.S. health experts said on Wednesday.
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Legal barriers prevented Georgia health officials from keeping an Atlanta man diagnosed with tuberculosis from leaving the United States.
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A tuberculosis patient held under the first U.S. isolation order in more than 40 years was on his honeymoon abroad and decided to "run" when he heard authorities wanted to lock him up and force treatment, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported on Wednesday.