US steps up precautions over TB
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US health officials begin a worldwide search to find people who may have come into contact with a TB carrier.
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A US man with a rare form of TB is moved to a special clinic as calls widen for anyone in contact with him to be checked.
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MAE SOT, Thailand  - Aid workers have discovered the first cases of "extensively drug resistant" TB among migrants from Myanmar, intensifying fears about untreatable infectious diseases propagating in the army-ruled former Burma.
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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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Super drug-resistant forms of tuberculosis are at the tipping point of a global epidemic, and only small changes are needed to help them spread quickly, U.S. researchers predicted Sunday.
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Federal health authorities are looking for people who may have been exposed aboard a plane to someone infected with a drug-resistant form of tuberculosis known as XDR-TB.
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The United States is boosting security at airports across the country in light of threats in Britain in the past two days, officials said.
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An airline passenger infected with a particularly lethal form of tuberculosis been put under quarantine. How much of a threat is the disease to others on the plane and in the U.S?
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New tests show the globe-trotting American lawyer who caused an international health scare by traveling with a dangerous form of tuberculosis has a less severe form of the disease, doctors said Tuesday.
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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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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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NEW YORK  - Tuberculosis infection is on the rise among internationally adopted children, a new study shows.
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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.
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A federal microbiologist, the father-in-law of the man quarantined with a drug-resistant form of tuberculosis, will be investigated to see how he was involved in the case, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Saturday.
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A new antibiotic could prove to be an important weapon in the fight against tuberculosis, scientists predict. Known as R207910, the new drug has been tested in mice and has been proven safe in human volunteers.
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The United States has placed in isolation a man who may have exposed fellow passengers and crew on two May trans-Atlantic flights to a tuberculosis strain that is extremely hard to treat, officials said on Tuesday.
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U.S. federal health officials have placed under quarantine a man who may have exposed fellow passengers to a particularly nasty strain of tuberculosis on two transatlantic flights, authorities said on Tuesday.