Border Officer In TB Case Has Retired
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The U.S. border inspector who ignored a warning to stop a man who had contracted a dangerous form of tuberculosis from entering the United States has retired, officials said yesterday.
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New procedures have been put into place at U.S. borders to stop flagged travelers such as the tuberculosis patient who sneaked across the Canadian border last month, U.S. officials said on Wednesday.
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As a police officer, Luigi Marzano was used to being in command. He still walks ramrod straight, but at 97 and deep into retirement, his memory is weakening and he has turned over command of his household to a virtual stranger half his age.
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A tuberculosis patient held under the first U.S. isolation order in more than 40 years was on his honeymoon abroad and decided to "run" when he heard authorities wanted to lock him up and force treatment, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported on Wednesday.
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U.S. border officials are changing their procedures after an embarrassing incident allowed a patient with a dangerous form of tuberculosis into the country.
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Borders' executive VP for emerging business and technology and chief strategy officer has resigned; position has been eliminated.
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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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VANCOUVER, British Columbia  -- Carla Coco-Boutte stepped off the train for a brief Canadian excursion, but she wasn't looking for typical souvenirs such as aboriginal carvings or smoked salmon. The 51-year-old former airline employee planned to return to her home in Santa Barbara, Calif., with an armload of prescription drugs she bought at a fraction of what she would pay at home...
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- Former soccer great Diego Maradona can leave an Argentine psychiatric clinic where he was being held against his will for drug addiction, a judge ruled on Monday.
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Andrew Speaker and his physicians have decided that the 31-year-old lawyer who is infected with drug-resistant tuberculosis should undergo surgery to remove infected and damaged lung tissue.
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U.S. authorities last week blamed tuberculosis carrier Andrew Speaker's illicit reentry to America on a single point of human error, faulting a Champlain, N.Y., inspector who failed to detain him as instructed by a computer alert.
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The case of a jet-setting tuberculosis patient might soon shift from the hospital wards to the courts. The patient, Andrew Speaker, an Atlanta personal injury attorney, could sue the federal government for being quarantined on the basis of federal regulations that some scholars see as unconstitutional.
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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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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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The U.S. tuberculosis patient who was legally isolated after fleeing across international 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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A lawyer infected with a contagious and deadly strain of tuberculosis claimed today that he returned to the US in defiance of a flight ban because he had been abandoned to die in an Italian hospital.
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A man infected with tuberculosis who caused an international health scare in May underwent surgery to remove the diseased part of his right lung.