Resistant TB case a wake up call for S.Africa
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South African officials said the   spread of highly drug resistant tuberculosis to a Johannesburg   hospital was a "wake-up call" to intensify work on defenses   against the possibility of a deadly outbreak.
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South African authorities have threatened to use police in door-to-door searches to compel 23 patients with highly infectious, drug resistant tuberculosis to return to the hospital they escaped from last week.
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A test can tell if TB patients have stopped taking their medicine, which increases the risk of drug resistant strains.
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The World Health Organization   urged South Africa on Thursday to act quickly to stamp out a   highly-resistant (WHO) form of tuberculosis that has killed at   least 52 people and could spread fast.
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A woman who left the hospital even though she'd been diagnosed with a deadly new TB strain is the first confirmed case of the strain in South Africa's most populous province, health officials said Thursday.
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A new, deadly strain of tuberculosis has killed 52 of 53 people infected in the last year in South Africa, the World Health Organization said Friday, calling for improved measures to treat and diagnose the virus.
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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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The problem of multidrug-resistant TB may be even more severe than previously thought, experts warn.
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A new, deadly strain of tuberculosis has killed 52 of 53 people infected in the last year in South Africa, the World Health Organization said Friday, calling for improved measures to treat and diagnose the bacteria.
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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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Africa needs to nearly triple the number of its health workers if it is to reverse plummeting life expectancies and combat pandemics of disease.
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South Africa alerts police after patients with incurable and infectious tuberculosis escape from hospital.
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Europe's first centre to fight multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis is opened in the Latvian capital Riga.
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MAE SOT, Thailand  - Aid workers have discovered the first cases of "extensively drug resistant" TB among migrants from Myanmar, intensifying fears about untreatable infectious diseases propagating in the army-ruled former Burma.
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Extremely drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis could spark a "practically uncontrollable" epidemic among HIV/AIDS sufferers in areas like Africa, a World Health Organization (WHO) official said on Tuesday.
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South Africa's government long   ignored warnings about drug-resistant tuberculosis, putting   millions of HIV-positive people at risk now that a dangerous   new strain of TB has emerged, AIDS activists say.
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The government has set out its action plan for tackling the rise in tuberculosis cases.