5 From Tucson Area Tested for TB
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TUCSON, Ariz. -- Pima County health officials are testing five people from Tucson who were co-passengers with a man now quarantined and under treatment in Denver for a rare, dangerous strain of tuberculosis.
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A tuberculosis patient under the first federal quarantine since 1963 because of a rare and dangerous strain of the disease was flown to Denver for treatment Thursday at a hospital that specializes in respiratory disorders, officials said.
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U.S. federal health officials have placed under quarantine a man who may have exposed fellow passengers to a particularly nasty strain of tuberculosis on two transatlantic flights, authorities said on Tuesday.
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MAE SOT, Thailand  - Aid workers have discovered the first cases of "extensively drug resistant" TB among migrants from Myanmar, intensifying fears about untreatable infectious diseases propagating in the army-ruled former Burma.
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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 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 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 this month, health officials said Tuesday.
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Federal prosecutors and US Food and Drug Administration officials are investigating a Tucson company believed to have sold an unapproved botulism-based drug that has paralyzed four people in Florida and New Jersey.
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South African health authorities   went on high alert on Wednesday after officials confirmed a   case of a new, deadly strain of tuberculosis in Johannesburg,   the country's economic hub.
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A senior House member wants to know how an infected man managed to get through U.S. Customs and Border Protection even though his passport was flagged in the agency's system. Lawyer Andrew Speaker is being treated at a Denver hospital as officials track down travelers who may have been exposed to the illness. Speaker's father-in-law is a microbiologist who studies TB at the CDC.
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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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While the federal government rarely imposes quarantines &#151; issuing its first in more than four decades last week &#151; cities and states routinely isolate TB patients to prevent them from infecting others.
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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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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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The Atlanta lawyer quarantined with a dangerous strain of tuberculosis could soon be allowed to make escorted trips outside his room if a crucial test finds him no danger to others.
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Health experts say combining TB and HIV testing and treatment could save the lives of up to 500,000 HIV positive Africans a year. The World Health Organization and UNAids issued the call to a health conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.