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added 2007 Sat Jun 9 20:13:57 by STONERS
The need for such authority to order someone quarantined emerged as lesson No. 1 from the case of the Atlanta lawyer who went to Europe despite having a dangerous form of tuberculosis .
added 2007 Fri Jun 1 21:07:51 by populist
Gibson stated: "It seems every time a story pops up about somebody who has suddenly contracted some strange or incurable disease, it's somebody who is either from the third world, or was traveling through some godforsaken hellhole, and somehow managed to contract ooga booga fever."
added 2007 Thu May 31 20:55:02 by STONERS
SARS on a plane. Mumps on a plane. And now a rare and deadly form of tuberculosis , on at least two planes. Commercial air travel's potential for spreading infection continues to cause handwringing among public health officials, as news of a jet-setting man with a rare and deadly form of TB demonstrates.
added 2007 Thu May 31 19:16:50 by populist
On Wednesday night's "Countdown," Air America Radio talk show host Rachel Maddow discuss the recent TB scare. Maddow points out that the CDC literally had no plan in place for this kind of dangerous situation and the abysmal way they dealt with it.
added 2007 Sun Apr 8 19:46:58 by populist
27-year-old Robert Daniels is being held against his will in a Phoenix hospital ward reserved for sick prisoners. If state officials have their way, he could be there for the rest of his life.
added 2007 Thu Apr 5 5:53:25 by STONERS
The extent of the deadly new strain of tuberculosis in South Africa and the region is not known and is cause for concern, an international health expert said Wednesday.
added 2007 Mon Mar 5 18:24:25 by Eagle Eye
Mother Nature strikes again!! A dangerous form of tuberculosis that resists treatment with both first-line and second-line drugs is spreading around the world, spurring an urgent search for new ways to stop the ancient scourge. Extensively drug-resistant TB (XDR-TB) has been found in 28 countries, including, rarely, the USA, the World Health Or
added 2006 Thu Dec 14 16:34:27 by unknown user
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