WHO Faults Handling of TB Case
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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.
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Tories say government negligent over bio-security at laboratory where disease leaked.
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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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China is not doing enough to fight tuberculosis and should not rest on its laurels with successes achieved to date, the health minister warned in an official newspaper on Wednesday.
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Global efforts to control rising levels  of tuberculosis are not working and more needs to be done to  reduce infections from the deadly airborne disease, public  health experts said Tuesday.
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New cases of tuberculosis found in   South Africa have raised fears there could be multiple versions   of a highly drug resistant strain that has killed 62 people and   threatens to spread across a region ravaged by AIDS.
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Â· Inquiry slams mis-prescribing of drugsÂ· Doctors 'ignoring official guidelines'
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The worst forms of the killer tuberculosis bug have been gaining ground in the United States, alarming public health officials over imported drug-resistant strains of a disease that is mostly under control in this country.
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The scene was hosed down before investigators could gather material. Was it government complicity or incompetence?
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A U.S. lawyer who flew to and from Europe with a perilous type of tuberculosis to continue with his wedding and honeymoon apologized in comments aired on Friday to passengers he put at risk of infection.
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A couple of MPs said Thursday that mad cow control on imported veal and beef in Bulgaria was unreliable and asked a prosecutor to investigate the country's top veterinary official for allegedly importing flawed ...
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New twist to investigation into food poisoning outbreak in Japan blamed on Chinese made dumplings after health minister says they may have been deliberately contaminated
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A "virtually untreatable" form of TB has emerged, according to the World Health Organization.
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A federal microbiologist, the father-in-law of the man quarantined with a drug-resistant form of tuberculosis, will be investigated to see how he was involved in the case, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Saturday.
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Government officials called the immunity a potentially serious investigative misstep that could complicate efforts to prosecute the companyâs employees.
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New evidence casts doubt on charges against a doctor and five nurses accused of deliberately infecting children with H.I.V.
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The globe-trotting American lawyer who caused an international public health incident with his travels while infected with a dangerous form of tuberculosis has a less severe form of the disease, a federal health official said Tuesday.