Health officials insist they warned TB patient
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The lawyer infected with a dangerous form of tuberculosis who sparked an international hunt when he eluded health authorities insisted on Wednesday that he had never been told he posed a risk to others.
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- The spread of HIV and AIDS is fuelling a massive tuberculosis crisis that could see one billion people infected in the next two decades, the UN warned yesterday.
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Border officers will no longer have the discretion to ignore directives barring someone from entering the country after a man crossed the border with a rare form of tuberculosis last month, a Department of Homeland Security official said.
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Tuberculosis is currently treated with a cocktail of three drugs that must be taken every day for six to nine months -- an overwhelming commitment that many TB patients do not keep.
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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. The man, whom officials did not identify, is at Atlanta's Grady Memorial Hospital in respiratory isolation.
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Urgent action is needed to deal with the rise in tuberculosis cases in the UK, doctors are warning.
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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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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 U.S. tuberculosis patient who set off international alarms after fleeing across borders does not have the most dangerous form of TB but instead a strain that is easier to treat, his doctors said on Tuesday.
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Health officials and a man with a dangerous form of tuberculosis clashed at a Senate hearing today, giving conflicting accounts of the events surrounding a honeymoon trip to Europe that set off an international health scare last month.
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South African authorities have threatened to use police in door-to-door searches to compel 23 patients with highly infectious, drug resistant tuberculosis to return to the hospital they escaped from last week.
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U.S. authorities conceded on Wednesday they made mistakes that worsened an international health alarm over an Atlanta lawyer who flew to and from Europe with a dangerous form of tuberculosis.
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U.S. health authorities have placed under quarantine a man who may have exposed passengers and crew on two transatlantic flights to a virulent drug-resistant form of tuberculosis, officials said today.
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South Africa's government long   ignored warnings about drug-resistant tuberculosis, putting   millions of HIV-positive people at risk now that a dangerous   new strain of TB has emerged, AIDS activists say.
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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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A U.S. man infected with a dangerous form of tuberculosis who sparked an international incident when he fled health authorities arrived at a specialist hospital in Denver for treatment on Thursday.
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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.