Tuberculosis suspected in elephant&#39;s death
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Officials at Chicago&#39;s Lincoln Park Zoo are testing elephants and keepers for tuberculosis after the death of a 35-year-old female African elephant.
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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, health officials said Tuesday.
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By Tom Scotney  Cattle farming in the West Midlands could be at risk because of high levels of bovine tuberculosis and difficulties making money from dairy products, regional farming chiefs have said.
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Shambo the "sacred" bullock tested positive for bovine TB will be killed, despite pleas from his owners.
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GUWAHATI, India  - An elephant named "Osama bin Laden" that has killed 27 people in northeast India, has been shot dead, triggering protests by conservationists who say forestry officials had probably shot the wrong animal.
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The U.S. man with a dangerous form of tuberculosis who triggered an international health scare last month will have surgery to treat his infection, hospital officials said on Thursday.
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A state in northern India has ordered a probe into sudden deaths of a pair of apparently healthy rare tigers in a government zoo, a report has said.
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The death toll from a highly drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis has risen to 74 in South Africa and a health official on Wednesday predicted more casualties from the deadly disease.
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BANGKOK -- Authorities will kill about 40 tigers believed to be sick with bird flu after 30 others died at a private zoo, officials said yesterday.
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An African elephant, which collapsed and died at the Los Angeles Zoo this week, suffered a heart attack, officials said on Wednesday, and animal rights activists said the death underscored the risks of confining the large mammals in urban zoos.
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Hundreds of patients and hospital workers may have been exposed to tuberculosis by a health care worker sick with the airborne disease, and at least 10 people have caught it, public health officials said Monday.
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U.S. health officials are trying to track down 44 people who sat near a woman infected with a hard-to-treat form of tuberculosis aboard an airliner from India to determine whether they have been infected, authorities said on Friday.
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Attacks by elephants on villages, people and other animals are on the rise. Some researchers are pointing to a species-wide trauma and the fraying of the fabric of pachyderm society.
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An Israeli doctor gave credence to a controversial rumor of Yasser Arafat&#39;s death by saying that the PLO chairman may have succumbed to AIDS.
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The cause of a mystery illness which killed a bank worker after she cut her foot in India is under investigation.
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Hansa, a 6-year-old Asian elephant who delighted visitors to the Woodland Park Zoo, was found dead Friday, about a week after she began displaying colic-like symptoms, the zoo said Friday.
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A 55-year-old Sumatran orangutan, believed to be the world's oldest, has died, a Miami zoo spokesman said.