Tests showing S.Africa miners with super TB may be wrong
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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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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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The first two tests of sputum of  the 31-year-old lawyer who has extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis have come back negative, the National Jewish Medical and Research Center said Monday.
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The strain of tuberculosis infecting Andrew Speaker, the Atlanta lawyer who was the object of an international hunt by public health authorities in May, turns out not to be as dangerous as doctors originally thought.
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Measuring viral load may not be an accurate way of predicting HIV progression, research suggests.
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JOHANNESBURG, Oct. 24 -- South African AIDS researchers have begun warning hundreds of volunteers that a highly touted experimental vaccine they received in recent months might make them more, not less, likely to contract HIV in the midst of one of the world's most rampant epidemics.
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Tuberculosis may reach the point where most new cases in some countries are resistant to many drugs unless far greater efforts are made now.
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A new, deadly strain of tuberculosis has killed 52 of 53 people infected in the last year in South Africa, the World Health Organization said Friday, calling for improved measures to treat and diagnose the bacteria.
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African, especially southern African, nations must link tuberculosis testing and treatment with HIV prevention programs if they are to win the AIDS battle, a top World Health Organisation official said on Thursday.
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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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Scientists say they have found new evidence that a Palestinian doctor and five Bulgarian nurses at a Libyan hospital did not deliberately infect hundreds of children with the AIDS virus.
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NEW YORK  - Patients with tuberculosis and diabetes do not respond as well to tuberculosis therapy as those who are non-diabetic, Dutch researchers report.
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Aids activist Zackie Achmat has joined the chorus of calls for TB treatment to be combined with HIV testing and anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment, echoing claims that it could save the lives of up to 500 000 HIV-infected Africans a year.
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NEW YORK  - In a study conducted at two major HIV centers in Singapore, rapid HIV self-tests were used improperly, or the results were interpreted incorrectly, by individuals at risk for HIV infection or those who were already infected.
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Extremely drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis could spark a "practically uncontrollable" epidemic among HIV/AIDS sufferers in areas like Africa, a World Health Organization (WHO) official said on Tuesday.
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A new type of antibiotic has been shown in laboratory tests to powerfully attack and control tuberculosis. Some experts believe R207910 could become the first new drug in 40 years to effectively combat the killer disease.
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More than 300 cases of extreme drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) have been confirmed across South Africa, the national health department said Thursday.