The Two Faces  Of Tuberculosis
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The story of Andrew Speaker's infection with "extensively drug-resistant" tuberculosis -- with its weird improbabilities and misunderstood messages -- has provided a crash course in one of the 21st century's least recognized health threats.
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A new antibiotic shows promise, thus far in mice, for treating tuberculosis much faster than current drugs do, scientists report. Additional evidence indicates that the antibiotic may work against multidrug-resistant strains of the tuberculosis bug.
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Urgent action is needed to deal with the rise in tuberculosis cases in the UK, doctors are warning.
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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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Tuberculosis may reach the point where most new cases in some countries are resistant to many drugs unless far greater efforts are made now.
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SARS on a plane. Mumps on a plane. And now a rare and deadly form of tuberculosis, on at least two planes. Commercial air travel's potential for spreading infection continues to cause handwringing among public health officials, as news of a jet-setting man with a rare and deadly form of TB demonstrates.
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The problem of multidrug-resistant TB may be even more severe than previously thought, experts warn.
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Howard Markel, a communicable diseases and history of medicine professor at the University of Michigan, will discuss his Sunday Outlook article on multi-drug resistant tuberculosis and the threat it and similar diseases pose.
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An older antibiotic once used against tuberculosis but since abandoned may work to treat the most common and actively contagious form of the disease more quickly, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
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Super drug-resistant forms of  tuberculosis are at the tipping point of a global epidemic, and  only small changes are needed to help them spread quickly, U.S.  researchers predicted Sunday.
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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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NEW YORK  - Patients with tuberculosis and diabetes do not respond as well to tuberculosis therapy as those who are non-diabetic, Dutch researchers report.
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Federal health authorities are looking for people who may have been exposed aboard a plane to someone infected with a drug-resistant form of tuberculosis known as XDR-TB.
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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 results of the first early test of a new type of tuberculosis vaccine show that it elicits strong immune responses in adults with or without a previous bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccination.
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The spread of HIV and AIDS across Africa is fueling the rise of another deadly disease that many thought was on the decline: tuberculosis.
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AFTER ANOTHER World AIDS Day, I am struck by how divisive the battle has become. I think the biggest tragedy is the bickering between some advocates of the President&#39;s AIDS initiative and those of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria.