TB quarantines common at local level
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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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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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SAN FRANCISCO -- 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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_ Health officials said the flu was &quot;widespread&quot; in the city on Tuesday after finding increases in positive cultures from local labs, sales of over-the-counter flu medications and the number of people reporting symptoms in doctors&#39; offices
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A Forsyth Central High School student has been diagnosed with tuberculosis by officials from the state Health Department. The 11th-grader has not attended school since Sept.
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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 Atlanta lawyer quarantined with a dangerous strain of tuberculosis has a relatively low chance of spreading the disease, possibly allowing him to leave his isolation room for a short time as soon as next week, one of his doctors said Tuesday.
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South African officials said the   spread of highly drug resistant tuberculosis to a Johannesburg   hospital was a "wake-up call" to intensify work on defenses   against the possibility of a deadly outbreak.
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South Africa alerts police after patients with incurable and infectious tuberculosis escape from hospital.
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Hundreds of patients and hospital workers may have been exposed to tuberculosis by a health care worker sick with the airborne disease, and at least 10 people have caught it, public health officials said Monday.
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The federal government last week detained and quarantined an Atlanta man who had spent nearly two weeks traveling in the United States, Canada and Europe with "extensively drug-resistant" tuberculosis, a rare and often fatal form of the infection, officials said yesterday.
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Urgent action is needed to deal with the rise in TB cases after rates in some parts of the UK doubled, doctors say.
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Overseas health workers treating patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis, the bug that set off a recent international health scare, would get a $50 million assist under a measure adopted Thursday by the House.
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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 Tuesday.
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A 30-year-old woman infected with a hard-to-treat form of tuberculosis is recovering at a Bay Area hospital, as health officials search for dozens of international air passengers who may have come in contact with her as she traveled back from India.
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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.