AP Interview: Fatal TB likely widespread
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A deadly new strain of extremely drug-resistant tuberculosis discovered in South Africa is likely to have spread beyond the rural area where 52 of the 53 people diagnosed with it have died, the doctor who discovered the super bug said.
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While every human death from bird flu commands widespread attention, some experts are urging the world not to forget killer diseases such as tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS, which claim millions of lives each year.
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Public health authorities have found all 26 Americans who sat near a man infected with untreated "extensively drug-resistant" tuberculosis on a transatlantic flight last month and will be able to test them for exposure to the often-fatal organism, federal officials said yesterday.
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Reports of the travels of a man with a dangerous form of tuberculosis seem to agree only in the missed chances to head off a health scandal.
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The man who took commercial flights to and from Europe last month while infected with untreated extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis was identified yesterday as an Atlanta lawyer whose father-in-law is a tuberculosis researcher at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Health officials were searching for airline passengers who may have come in contact with a 30-year-old woman infected with a hard-to-treat form of tuberculosis on a flight from India.
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High levels of  may be killing off people living in cities around the world, experts suspect.
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The spread of HIV and AIDS across Africa is fueling the rise of another deadly disease that many thought was on the decline: tuberculosis.
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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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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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PARIS -- The spread of a new, highly resistant form of tuberculosis that is ``virtually untreatable" is causing alarm among international health officials who say that it has now been identified in ``all regions of the world," according to the World Health Organization.
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Health officials in North America and Europe are trying to track down about 80 airline passengers who sat near a honeymooner infected with a dangerous drug-resistant form of tuberculosis on two trans-Atlantic flights. They also want passenger lists from four shorter flights the man also took while in Europe.
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The World Health Organization meeting is being held in response to recent reports of deadly strains of tuberculosis.
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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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WASHINGTON Dec 9, 2004 - Laboratory tests of a new type of antibiotic suggest it might revolutionize the treatment of tuberculosis, a global killer disease that has become increasingly resistant to current drugs and which is now claiming more than 2
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia Sept. 20, 2004 - The spread of HIV/AIDS is fueling a massive tuberculosis crisis that could see one billion people infected in the next 20 years, the UN warned Monday.
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A man with a rare and dangerous form of tuberculosis may have spread the disease to passengers and crew on two trans-Atlantic flights earlier this month