Fugitive TB patient asks for forgiveness
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A tuberculosis patient who turned fugitive in order to continue with wedding and honeymoon plans despite warnings not to travel has apologized to the fellow airline passengers he may have endangered, ABC television reported on Friday.
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The escape of a notorious jail-breaker has led to calls to overhaul Belgium's prison system.
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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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The Atlanta lawyer diagnosed with tuberculosis, who caused an international health scare after traveling to Europe and back, will undergo surgery Tuesday to remove the diseased portion of one of his lungs.
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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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A man infected with tuberculosis who caused an international health scare in May underwent surgery to remove the diseased part of his right lung.
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Public-health and homeland-security officials admitted to slip-ups in their handling of the Andrew Speaker TB case. Will the government be ready next time?
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An Atlanta lawyer with a potentially deadly contagious disease talks about a journey that has triggered fear and outrage.
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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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A man who had been quarantined with a drug-resistant form of tuberculosis for nearly a year was being transferred Thursday to a hospital in Colorado.
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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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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 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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Streptomycin proves a godsend for tuberculosis victims and the sufferers of other infectious diseases, but the fallout from its discovery almost undoes its discoverer.
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The Atlanta man with extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis who sparked an international health alarm by flying to Europe and back for his wedding twice ignored requests to stay put and not travel, officials said yesterday.
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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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A Boston-based democracy activist jailed in China is seeking a medical parole because of a stroke he suffered earlier this year, his wife says.