Few risk infection from TB patient, CDC says
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A man infected with a dangerous strain of tuberculosis fled across Europe to avoid detention, taking flight after flight to stay ahead of public health officials, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday.
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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.
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WASHINGTON -- The World Bank spent less than 1 percent of its global health money last year on tuberculosis control, despite the growing numbers of AIDS patients in Africa who are dying from tuberculosis, according to a report issued yesterday. The report, by a nonprofit advocacy group, called on the institution to greatly increase efforts to fight the highly contagious ...
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NEW YORK  - Patients with tuberculosis and diabetes do not respond as well to tuberculosis therapy as those who are non-diabetic, Dutch researchers report.
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A Forsyth Central High School student has been diagnosed with tuberculosis by officials from the state Health Department. The 11th-grader has not attended school since Sept.
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An airline passenger infected with a particularly lethal form of tuberculosis been put under quarantine. How much of a threat is the disease to others on the plane and in the U.S?
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The globe-trotting tuberculosis patient moved up his flight to Europe after health officials urged him to stay put &#151; but the Atlanta lawyer, in defiant testimony from his hospital room Wednesday, insisted he wasn't ducking anyone.
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The man infected with a drug-resistant form of potentially fatal tuberculosis left Grady Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, early Thursday and was transferred to a hospital in Denver, Colorado, a hospital representative said.
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A man with a rare and dangerous form of tuberculosis ignored doctors' advice and took two trans-Atlantic flights, leading to the first U.S. government-ordered quarantine since 1963, health officials said Tuesday. The man, whom officials did not identify, is at Atlanta's Grady Memorial Hospital in respiratory isolation.
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The family of a lawyer with a rare strain of tuberculosis released part of a tape recording Wednesday in which a health official is heard saying the man was not contagious and didn't need to be isolated.
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Emory University officials assured Friday that there was little chance that more than 500 surgical patients at the school&#39;s medical center could have been infected by a fatal disease similar to the human version of mad cow disease.
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One day after the discovery of a  drug-resistant, fast-developing AIDS case in New York prompted  city health officials to announce an alert, leading experts  said on Saturday there may be little cause for alarm.
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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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The U.S. tuberculosis patient who was legally isolated after fleeing across international borders does not have the most dangerous form of TB but instead a strain that is easier to treat, his doctors said on Tuesday.
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ATLANTA The head of the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention says there&#39;s actually been a little good news this flu season.
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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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Elderly people who are obese appear to have a lower risk of falling ill with tuberculosis compared to those who are underweight or of average weight, according to an extensive geriatric study in Hong Kong.