TB patient does not have most dangerous form
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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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The 36-year-old South Asian immigrant didn't seem like a typical candidate for a heart attack. He was lean, a nonsmoker and had healthy blood pressure, although his cholesterol levels hovered just above normal. But when his chest pain lasted for an hour, he headed for the emergency room.
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The Atlanta lawyer quarantined with a dangerous strain of tuberculosis has a relatively low chance of spreading the disease, possibly allowing him to leave his isolation room for a short time, hospital officials said Tuesday.
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The globe-trotting American lawyer who caused an international public health incident with his travels while infected with a dangerous form of tuberculosis has a less severe form of the disease, a federal health official said Tuesday.
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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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French doctors attending to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat at a private nursing home in Clamart, near Paris, have said that he is in good shape, but still not out of danger.
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The highly dangerous form of tuberculosis that has infected a man now in quarantine resists almost all drugs used to treat TB, leaving only less effective options.
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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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The parents and in-laws of the man who set off an international health scare when he flew to Europe and back while infected with a drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis stressed that he would never have traveled if he thought he was contagious.
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NEW YORK  - Many low-risk patients with community-acquired pneumonia recover faster and do not have an increased mortality risk if they are treated as outpatients rather than inpatients, findings from a new study show.
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Father-in-law of US patient who flew to Europe  with tuberculosis researches diseases.
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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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Tuberculosis is currently treated with a cocktail of three drugs that must be taken every day for six to nine months -- an overwhelming commitment that many TB patients do not keep.
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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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Health officials were searching for airline passengers who may have come in contact with a 30-year-old woman infected with a hard-to-treat form of tuberculosis on a flight from India.
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A "virtually untreatable" form of TB has emerged, according to the World Health Organization.
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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.