TB Patient Moved to Specialized Hospital
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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 jailed former oil executive gravely ill with HIV/AIDS was transferred to a specialist clinic on Friday, Russia's prison service said, following an international campaign on his behalf.
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An Atlanta attorney will have surgery next month to remove lung tissue infected with extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, hospital officials said Thursday.
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An Atlanta attorney will have surgery next month to remove lung tissue infected with extremely drug-resistant tuberculosis, hospital officials said Thursday.
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NEW YORK  - If tuberculosis is not detected  in patients being treated for cancer, it can easily spread to  other hospitalized cancer patients, a new report shows.
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Andrew Speaker and his physicians have decided that the 31-year-old lawyer who is infected with drug-resistant tuberculosis should undergo surgery to remove infected and damaged lung tissue.
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A mystery respiratory illness that is plaguing a local hospital is likely to be the result of a viral, and not bacterial, infection.
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A man with a rare and dangerous form of tuberculosis may have spread the disease to passengers and crew on two trans-Atlantic flights earlier this month
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The man quarantined for a drug-resistant form of tuberculosis settled in Saturday for what could be a two-month hospital stay by taking antibiotics and fielding phone calls.
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The United States has placed in isolation a man who may have exposed fellow passengers and crew on two May trans-Atlantic flights to a tuberculosis strain that is extremely hard to treat, officials said on Tuesday.
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Health officials said the student had become infected with a virulent, drug-resistant strain of bacteria that is primarily spread in hospitals but that in recent years has surfaced increasingly in nonhospital settings.
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One of the two patients hospitalized at Bayonne Medical Center in connection with a recent botulism poisoning has apparently been transferred to a different hospital.
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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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A seriously ill Basque militant on hunger strike is moved from Madrid to a hospital in his home region.
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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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U.S. border officials are changing their procedures after an embarrassing incident allowed a patient with a dangerous form of tuberculosis into the country.
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Gen. Augusto Pinochet has been moved from a hospital's intensive care unit as he recovers from a heart attack, officials said Friday.