TB Scare: The Public-Health Slip-Ups
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Public-health and homeland-security officials admitted to slip-ups in their handling of the Andrew Speaker TB case. Will the government be ready next time?
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The World Health Organization meeting is being held in response to recent reports of deadly strains of tuberculosis.
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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, federal health officials said Tuesday.
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After several years under the public health radar, whooping cough is making a comeback in New York. The number of New Yorkers affected by the highly contagious respiratory illness passed
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The disclosure was highly unusual in a country whose populace is both hard hit by the disease but reluctant to acknowledge it.
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How can doctors tell one type of drug-resistant tuberculosis from another? The task is tricky, and crucial.
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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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Parents are contacted by health experts after a childminder and four children in Cardiff are diagnosed with TB.
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The flu vaccine shortage that&#39;s stirred worries here and abroad could look mild compared to another public health crisis that might be waiting in the wings.
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The case of a jet-setting tuberculosis patient might soon shift from the hospital wards to the courts. The patient, Andrew Speaker, an Atlanta personal injury attorney, could sue the federal government for being quarantined on the basis of federal regulations that some scholars see as unconstitutional.
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A new antibiotic could prove to be an important weapon in the fight against tuberculosis, scientists predict. Known as R207910, the new drug has been tested in mice and has been proven safe in human volunteers.
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A decline in leprosy incidents may have been caused by the rampant spread of tuberculosis, researchers say.
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Â· Government failed to follow up patients at riskÂ· Danger of wider infection a 'serious problem'
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By KEVIN FREKING WASHINGTON - More than five years after the Sept. 11 attacks, the government cannot show how the $5 billion given to public health departments has better prepared the country for a bioterrorism attack or flu pandemic.
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The globe-trotting American lawyer who caused an international public health incident by traveling while infected with tuberculosis has a less severe form of the disease than previously diagnosed, a federal health official said Tuesday.
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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 this month, health officials said Tuesday.