New SAfrican TB cases raise fears of wider outbreak
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New cases of tuberculosis found in   South Africa have raised fears there could be multiple versions   of a highly drug resistant strain that has killed 62 people and   threatens to spread across a region ravaged by AIDS.
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A new case of foot and mouth disease has been confirmed on a second farm west of London, near a renewed outbreak earlier this week, the government said Friday.
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British farmers grappling to contain outbreaks of the foot-and-mouth virus faced the threat Sunday of a new disease after a cow was diagnosed with bluetongue, the first case recorded in Britain.
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PARIS -- The spread of a new, highly resistant form of tuberculosis that is ``virtually untreatable" is causing alarm among international health officials who say that it has now been identified in ``all regions of the world," according to the World Health Organization.
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Simultaneous infection with both HIV and TB is spreading throughout sub-Saharan Africa, researchers say.
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Britain's farmers face a new threat to their cattle after disease was found at Ipswich farm.
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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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A "virtually untreatable" form of TB has emerged, according to the World Health Organization.
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Tests may have been mistaken   showing that South African gold miners contracted a highly drug   resistant strain of tuberculosis, health officials and a gold   firm said on Thursday.
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AIDS may be killing elected officials in some Southern African countries faster than they can be replaced, creating a new threat to democracy and governance in the region, a new study said.
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FRIDAY, Dec. 15 (HealthDay News) -- An international epidemic of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis may be more widespread than previously thought, says an article in this week's issue of The Lancet .
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The spread of HIV and AIDS across Africa is fueling the rise of another deadly disease that many thought was on the decline: tuberculosis.
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Singapore and its Southeast Asian neighbors are in the midst of a new epidemic of dengue that is on course to claim more victims regionally than the last epidemic, in 2005.
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South Africa is overhauling its AIDS strategy in a bid to counter the rise of extreme drug resistant tuberculosis which is proving a serious threat to those suffering HIV/AIDS, a senior official said on Thursday.
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AUSTRALIAN scientists have developed a new vaccine for tuberculosis they believe will stem the spread of the disease which kills three million people a year.
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More than 100 people have died in a remote part of Congo, including all those who attended the funerals of two village chiefs, in what health officials fear is an outbreak of hemorrhagic fever.
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SARS on a plane. Mumps on a plane. And now a rare and deadly form of tuberculosis, on at least two planes. Commercial air travel's potential for spreading infection continues to cause handwringing among public health officials, as the case of a jet-setting man with a rare and deadly form of TB is demonstrating.