Bureaucratic Failings Are Cited in TB Case
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The Atlanta lawyer with extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis who crisscrossed the Atlantic on commercial jets last month was not added to a U.S. no-fly list until at least two hours after he reentered the country by car from Canada, according to congressional investigators.
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ATLANTA, June 12 -- Health officials trying to stop a globetrotting honeymooner with a dangerous form of tuberculosis got little assistance from his lawyer father and his future father-in-law, a TB expert who not only balked at stopping the Greek wedding but attended the ceremony himself, accordi...
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Doctors treating the Atlanta attorney with tuberculosis who touched off an international health scare have decided to reclassify his type of TB, officials said Tuesday.
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Health officials and a man with a dangerous form of tuberculosis clashed at a Senate hearing today, giving conflicting accounts of the events surrounding a honeymoon trip to Europe that set off an international health scare last month.
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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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The globe-trotting American lawyer who caused an international public health incident by traveling while infected with tuberculosis has a less severe form of the disease than previously diagnosed, a federal health official said Tuesday.
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Â· Government failed to follow up patients at riskÂ· Danger of wider infection a 'serious problem'
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The Atlanta lawyer quarantined with a dangerous strain of tuberculosis has a relatively low chance of spreading the disease, possibly allowing him to leave his isolation room for a short time, hospital officials said Tuesday.
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Tuberculosis may reach the point where most new cases in some countries are resistant to many drugs unless far greater efforts are made now.
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Issues of privacy  -  and bureaucracy  -  have hampered health officials trying to avert an outbreak of the disease
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Tests and medicines used to diagnose and  combat tuberculosis (TB) in poor countries are outdated and  ineffective and new treatments must be developed to fight the  disease, Doctors Without Borders said Tuesday.
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A decline in leprosy incidents may have been caused by the rampant spread of tuberculosis, researchers say.
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A series of faults at a government research facility are the likely causes of the recent foot and mouth outbreak, two reports are expected to say.
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The problem of multidrug-resistant TB may be even more severe than previously thought, experts warn.
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There is a tuberculosis alert at the Causeway Hospital, after a member of staff contracts a rare form of the disease.
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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, federal health officials said Tuesday.
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Tests and medicines used to diagnose and combat tuberculosis (TB) in poor countries are outdated and ineffective and new treatments must be developed to fight the disease, Doctors Without Borders said Tuesday.