TB case prompts new U.S. border safety protocol
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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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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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A US TB patient who triggered a health scare by boarding trans-Atlantic flights says sorry to fellow passengers.
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The patient who took two trans-Atlantic flights while infected with extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis arrived in Denver on his way to the National Jewish Medical and Research Center. via WMTW
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Public health officials urged the passengers and crew of the two recent trans-Atlantic flights to get checked for tuberculosis.
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The globe-trotting tuberculosis patient moved up his flight to Europe after health officials urged him to stay put &#151; but the Atlanta lawyer, in defiant testimony from his hospital room Wednesday, insisted he wasn't ducking anyone.
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U.S. health officials are trying to track down 44 people who sat near a woman infected with a hard-to-treat form of tuberculosis aboard an airliner from India to determine whether they have been infected, authorities said on Friday.
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The United States is toughening Canadian   border inspections and imposing new levies on air travelers and   commercial shippers from Canada to try to prevent bioterrorism   and the spread of disease and pests.
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While federal health officials agonized over precedent and protocol for flying sick people internationally, a honeymooner with a rare strain of tuberculosis panicked and took commercial flights from Europe back to North America.
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The globe-trotting American lawyer who caused an international health scare by traveling while infected with tuberculosis has a less severe form of the disease than previously diagnosed, a Denver hospital official said Tuesday.
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ATLANTA, June 12 -- Health officials trying to stop a globetrotting honeymooner with a dangerous form of tuberculosis got little assistance from his lawyer father and his future father-in-law, a TB expert who not only balked at stopping the Greek wedding but attended the ceremony himself, accordi...
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Father-in-law of US patient who flew to Europe  with tuberculosis researches diseases.
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The man who took commercial flights to and from Europe last month while infected with untreated extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis was identified yesterday as an Atlanta lawyer whose father-in-law is a tuberculosis researcher at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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A Forsyth Central High School student has been diagnosed with tuberculosis by officials from the state Health Department. The 11th-grader has not attended school since Sept.
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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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A man infected with a dangerous strain of tuberculosis fled across Europe to avoid detention, taking flight after flight to stay ahead of public health officials, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday.
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U.S. health authorities have placed under quarantine a man who may have exposed passengers and crew on two transatlantic flights to a virulent drug-resistant form of tuberculosis, officials said today.