Border worker disregarded TB warning
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A globe-trotting Atlanta lawyer with a dangerous strain of tuberculosis was allowed back into the U.S. by a border inspector who disregarded a computer warning to stop him and don protective gear, officials said Thursday. The inspector has been removed from border duty.
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The Food and Drug Administration uncovered contamination and unsanitary conditions at a British flu vaccine manufacturing plant in 2003 but failed to re-inspect it until similar
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The strain of tuberculosis infecting Andrew Speaker, the Atlanta lawyer who was the object of an international hunt by public health authorities in May, turns out not to be as dangerous as doctors originally thought.
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Scientists have found evidence of a peril that human ancestors encountered in their migrations out of Africa: tuberculosis.
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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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The U.S. tuberculosis patient who set off international alarms after fleeing across 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 Atlanta man with extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis who sparked an international health alarm by flying to Europe and back for his wedding twice ignored requests to stay put and not travel, officials said yesterday.
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It took a week and a half for U.S. health officials to notify their counterparts in Europe that an American honeymooner was traveling there with a dangerous strain of tuberculosis, agencies involved in the case told The Associated Press.
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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.
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Legal barriers prevented Georgia health officials from keeping an Atlanta man diagnosed with tuberculosis from leaving the United States.
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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 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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The man potentially exposed several hundred airline passengers to a dangerous and hard-to-treat form of tuberculosis.
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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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A US TB patient who sparked an health scare in May says doctors had told him he was not contagious.
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Tests may have been mistaken   showing that South African gold miners contracted a highly drug   resistant strain of tuberculosis, health officials and a gold   firm said on Thursday.
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Top officials of the World Health Organization yesterday criticized American health authorities' handling of the case of a 31-year-old Atlanta lawyer with a dangerous strain of tuberculosis who defied official requests that he not take a long airplane flight.