Officials Detail Errors in TB Case
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Officials of federal agencies that guard public health and the nation's borders yesterday told congressional committees that they made mistakes in their unsuccessful effort to stop an Atlanta lawyer from traveling on two continents with an extremely dangerous form of tuberculosis last month.
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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 World Health Organization meeting is being held in response to recent reports of deadly strains of tuberculosis.
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Health officials were searching Monday for dozens of 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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US health officials begin a worldwide search to find people who may have come into contact with a TB carrier.
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Global efforts to control rising levels  of tuberculosis are not working and more needs to be done to  reduce infections from the deadly airborne disease, public  health experts said Tuesday.
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A US TB patient who sparked an health scare in May says doctors had told him he was not contagious.
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The countryâs top experts on tuberculosis called for a vast increase in federal research dollars and asked for expanded authority to restrict travel by infected persons.
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Scientists have cast doubt on charges that six foreign medics deliberately infected Libyan children with HIV.
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The globe-trotting American lawyer who caused an international public health incident with his travels while infected with a dangerous form of tuberculosis has a less severe form of the disease, a federal health official said Tuesday.
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An investigator had serious misgivings about decisions being made on the case by senior S.E.C. officials.
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Tests and medicines used to diagnose and  combat tuberculosis (TB) in poor countries are outdated and  ineffective and new treatments must be developed to fight the  disease, Doctors Without Borders said on Tuesday.
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ederal prosecutors acknowledged possible flaws yesterday in a major piece of evidence used in their case against two leaders of an Albany mosque on charges that they supported terrorism.
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A federal microbiologist, the father-in-law of the man quarantined with a drug-resistant form of tuberculosis, will be investigated to see how he was involved in the case, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Saturday.
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Operation to track down passengers who flew on same flights as man with rare TB strain.
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The U.S. Homeland Security Department said on Thursday it was investigating how a newlywed lawyer with a dangerous form of tuberculosis slipped through borders despite orders to detain him.
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U.S. health officials are trying to track down 44 people who sat near a woman infected with a hard-to-treat form of tuberculosis aboard an airliner from India to determine whether they have been infected, authorities said on Friday.