Many U.S. TB patients also HIV infected: report
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Nearly a third of U.S. tuberculosis patients do not know whether they are infected with the AIDS virus, showing more needs to be done to get these people tested for HIV, a federal report said on Thursday.
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It may come as a surprise to many Americans that tuberculosis is the second leading cause of death worldwide. TB, which was nearly under control in the mid-20th century, affects more than eight million people each year, killing two million of them.
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Hundreds of patients and hospital workers may have been exposed to tuberculosis by a health care worker sick with the airborne disease, and at least 10 people have caught it, public health officials said Monday.
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New HIV cases among Hispanics are being diagnosed at twice the rate of African-Americans and more than four times that of Caucasians.
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THE latest report of the United Nations organization that combats HIV-AIDS (UNAIDS) indicates that 4.9 million people have become infected with the immune
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As AIDS patients live longer they can experience a host of unexpected medical conditions, which challenge the prevailing view of the disease as chronic and manageable.
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The lives of 500,000 HIV-positive people in Africa could be prolonged each year if they were also treated for tuberculosis (TB), two UN agencies announced on Tuesday.
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The number of newly diagnosed HIV infections in gay and bisexual men has risen in many US states, according to a federal study on Wednesday which stoked concerns AIDS may be poised for a resurgence in the country.
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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, health officials said Tuesday.
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African American men are nearly seven times more likely to be diagnosed with HIV than white men, according to a report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released on Thursday.
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FRIDAY, Dec. 15 (HealthDay News) -- An international epidemic of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis may be more widespread than previously thought, says an article in this week's issue of The Lancet .
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Independent of cigarette  smoking, infection with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is  associated with an elevated risk for developing lung cancer, a  study shows.
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Research results have been released that indicate that some hemophiliacs may have been infected with AIDS because of domestic blood coagulation products.
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A particularly serious form of the  sexually transmitted bacterial disease syphilis has been  detected in gay and bisexual U.S. men infected with the AIDS  virus, federal health officials reported on Thursday.
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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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A man infected with a drug-resistant form of TB knew he was not supposed to travel overseas but did so anyway, the CDC said today, potentially exposing others to the disease. The man who is quarantined in an Atlanta hospital, however, told a newspaper that health officials who informed him he was infected said they "preferred" he not travel.
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LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK  - More than 25 years into the AIDS epidemic, many drugs are used to treat HIV, but an alarming number of patients are becoming resistant to therapy, driving research into new ways to combat the virus.