Colo. hospital strict with TB patient
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The hospital caring for the Georgia attorney with a rare strain of tuberculosis ranks among the best in the nation for research and treatment of the disease; it was born in an age in which thousands suffering from "consumption" trekked to Colorado's high, dry air in hopes of a cure.
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A US man with a rare form of TB is moved to a special clinic as calls widen for anyone in contact with him to be checked.
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Andrew Speaker, the tuberculosis patient who sparked an international public health scare by traveling overseas in May, will undergo surgery Tuesday to remove a diseased portion of his right lung, health officials said.
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An inmate passed through three county jails and a state prison before officials diagnosed him with tuberculosis, possibly infecting nearly 50 other people, according to a report released this week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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An airline passenger infected with a particularly lethal form of tuberculosis been put under quarantine. How much of a threat is the disease to others on the plane and in the U.S?
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The man with a dangerous form of tuberculosis re-entered the country when a customs agent let him pass despite knowing that he was being sought by health authorities.
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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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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 globe-trotting tuberculosis patient who sparked an international public health incident in May said Friday he was tricked into a federal quarantine.
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The man infected with a drug-resistant form of potentially fatal tuberculosis left Grady Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, early Thursday and was transferred to a hospital in Denver, Colorado, a hospital representative said.
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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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An Atlanta man with extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis who sparked an international health alarm by flying to Europe and back for his wedding was discharged from an Atlanta hospital early today and flown to Denver for more specialized treatment, authorities said.
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Top officials of the World Health Organization yesterday criticized American health authorities' handling of the case of a 31-year-old Atlanta lawyer with a dangerous strain of tuberculosis who defied official requests that he not take a long airplane flight.
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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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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 US TB patient who sparked an health scare in May says doctors had told him he was not contagious.
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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