E-mails: TB patient's family was no help
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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 went to the ceremony himself, according to e-mails obtained by The Associated Press.
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A tuberculosis patient who turned fugitive in order to continue with wedding and honeymoon plans despite warnings not to travel has apologized to the fellow airline passengers he may have endangered, he said in an interview aired on Friday.
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Severely mentally ill people in Fairfax County whose families are trying to get them emergency help are being released without receiving treatment -- or even a hearing -- because there are not enough independent psychologists to examine them.
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The globe-trotting tuberculosis patient who sparked an international public health incident in May said Friday he was tricked into a federal quarantine.
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A tuberculosis patient who turned fugitive to continue with wedding and honeymoon plans despite warnings not to travel apologized to the fellow airline passengers he may have endangered.
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An international fund and families of  HIV-infected children in Libya have not yet agreed a financial  package for them, a lawyer for foreign medics sentenced to  death in the case said on Thursday.
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The family of a lawyer with a rare strain of tuberculosis released part of a tape recording Wednesday in which a health official is heard saying the man was not contagious and didn't need to be isolated.
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Reports of the travels of a man with a dangerous form of tuberculosis seem to agree only in the missed chances to head off a health scandal.
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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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TWELVE Tasmanians will receive letters telling them they may have been exposed to a disease for which there is no known cure. The 12 have all had brain or spinal surgery at the Royal Melbourne Hospital in the past 18 months.
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Letter: There is no silver bullet for this problem.
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Death notices sent to relatives of missing people
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Lying in a hospital bed, dying from cancer and weak from massive doses of chemotherapy, Eric Drew began to get mail. Not from well-wishers but from banks and credit card companies, thanking him for opening accounts he knew nothing about.
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The United States has isolated a man who may have exposed fellow passengers on two transatlantic flights to a strain of tuberculosis that is extremely hard to treat, officials said on Tuesday.
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Efforts to free six foreign medics  sentenced to death for infecting Libyan children with the HIV  virus have yet to result in a deal on compensation, a group  representing the families of the children said on Sunday.
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Eight family members in rural Indonesia fall ill, and medical investigators are racing to figure out why
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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.