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Nebraska agriculture officials say they now expect bovine tuberculosis testing to continue through December as they investigate whether two cases found in one herd last spring were isolated incidents.
Bovine tuberculosis has created costly problems for the cattle industry in states where the disease has appeared, but it appears to be a manageable threat.
Another round of tests for tuberculosis in Nebraska cattle has come back clean, buoying hopes in the nation's top beef-producing state that the disease will remain more of a worry than an imminent threat to livelihoods.
The World Health Organization says a study has shown that babies with HIV could die if given a standard tuberculosis vaccine.
Concerns about bovine tuberculosis have led to the quarantine of 32 cattle herds with about 15,000 adult cattle in north-central Nebraska, officials said Thursday.
Nebraska and federal officials are trying to find out whether bovine tuberculosis has spread from a herd of beef cattle in north-central Nebraska's Rock County.
The Gates Foundation is funding tests of new treatments for tuberculosis patients in China, part of a critical worldwide effort to stanch emerging, hard-to-cure strains of the disease that the World Health Organization says are like a time bomb.
The Beijing Chest Hospital was packed with people on a recent weekday morning. In the waiting area, Wang Chong, a migrant worker who has been fighting tuberculosis for several months, was facing a dilemma: Does he continue treatment that has already cost him more than $5,000 or stop before his savings are wiped out?
In a March 24 story about World Health Organization's annual report on tuberculosis, The Associated Press incorrectly quoted Tido von Schoen-Angerer, the executive director of Doctors Without Borders, on regions affected. He said, "We have a situation with very little progress, particularly in Africa and Eastern Europe and Central Asia." He did not cite Central Europe.
The number of people infected with both tuberculosis and HIV is twice what researchers previously thought, top health officials said Tuesday. The World Health Organization's annual report on TB, presented in Rio, indicates that there were 1.37 million cases of people with both TB and HIV in 2007, the latest year for which statistics are available. About 700,000 people were infected with both in 2006, according to a report released by WHO last year.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has given New Mexico "split status" for bovine tuberculosis — meaning only two counties in the state will be under strict requirements for moving and testing cattle.
South Africa is trying a new approach to controlling drug-resistant tuberculosis — treating people at home rather than in isolation hospitals surrounded by barbed wire and baton-wielding guards, health officials said Monday .
Even as tuberculosis rates decline in the United States, drug-resistant strains of the disease showing up in states with large immigrant populations and are becoming increasingly hard to treat.
Scientists might have found a way to deal drug-resistant tuberculosis a one-two punch using two old, safe antibiotics — and studies in ill patients could begin later this year.
After months of studying information on its neighbor's livestock, North Dakota's Board of Animal Health could decide this week whether to change import restrictions on Minnesota cattle that have been in place for nearly a year.
North Dakota wants assurances that Minnesota officials are closely monitoring cattle and wild deer if the federal government agrees to ease requirements for bovine tuberculosis testing in much of that state.
A new test to quickly diagnose drug-resistant forms of tuberculosis will be rolled out in four African countries this year, the World Health Organization said Monday.
A new test to quickly diagnose drug-resistant forms of tuberculosis will be rolled out in four African countries this year.
Authorities increased security Friday at a tuberculosis hospital where patients with drug-resistant forms of the disease went on a rampage to protest prison-like conditions.
New federal restrictions meant to prevent the spread of bovine tuberculosis may force the state's livestock producers to spend more time and money shipping their cattle and bison out of state.
The fight against the global tuberculosis epidemic has slowed to a crawl, the World Health Organization said in a report Monday. The worldwide rate of TB infection has been declining for several years. But between 2005 and 2006, the rate of new cases fell by less than 1 percent, far less than the annual decrease of 5 to 7 percent sought by health officials.
Drug-resistant tuberculosis is spreading even faster than medical experts had feared, the World Health Organization warned in report issued Tuesday. The rate of TB patients infected with the drug-resistant strain topped 20 percent in some countries, the highest ever recorded, the U.N. agency said.
Health authorities on Wednesday reported the first known cases of virtually untreatable tuberculosis in Botswana, following fears that the highly contagious strain has spread beyond neighboring South Africa.
South African authorities have threatened to use police in door-to-door searches to compel 23 patients with highly infectious, drug resistant tuberculosis to return to the hospital they escaped from last week.
Forty nine highly infectious tuberculosis patients cut through wire fencing and broke out of a hospital isolation unit, apparently because they wanted to spend Christmas with their families.
New Drug-resistant TB Strains Could Become Widespread, Says New StudyOur results imply that drug resistant strains of TB are likely to become highly prevalent in the next few decades," says UNSW's Dr Fabio Luciani, the study's lead author.
VA PTSD Centers Closed for Vital HolidayHolidays are critical times for veterans, especially PTSD vets. They are the highest suicide risk of all. This morning, we found the major PTSD treatment facility along with the VA Medical Center in Minneapolis actually closed prior to this all important holiday.
Leaders meet in Seattle to talk global health in JuneSeattle is a hub for global health discussions in June: H8 (Health 8), leaders of global organizations such as WHO, UNICEF, the World Bank and UNAIDS; the Pacific Health Summit; the Global Health Research Congress; and HIROS, a meeting of the leaders of government agencies and f …
Swine flu alert! News/Death ratio: 8176During the last 13 days, up to May 6, WHO has confirmed that 25 countries are affected by the Swine flu and 31 persons have died from Swine flu. WHO data indicates that about 60 000 persons died from TB during the same period.
Newswise Medical News | New Diagnostic TB Test Expected to Provide More Efficient ResultsEncouraging new dx test for TB/MDR-TB
Chicago Doctor-in-Training Exposes Hundreds to Tuberculosis - Infectious DiseaseHundreds of patients in Chicago-area hospitals, including children, are at risk for tuberculosis after a doctor-in-training tested positive for the disease.
Developing countries need $1 trillion to weather financial crisis – BanAt least $1 trillion is needed to help developing countries get through the global financial crisis, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the leaders of the world's richest nations ahead of their meeting in London on 2 April.
CANTAM first African Network of Excellence for clinical trialsA new multi-center cooperative among a number of countries was announced. This will enable better training, oversight, and consistency in conducting clinical research on malaria, TB, and HIV.
Nicholas Kristof: A Killer Without Borders -- TB or not TB...?As if you didn't have enough to worry about ... consider the deadly, infectious and highly portable disease sitting in the lungs of a charming young man here, Garik Hakobyan. In effect, he's a time bomb.
Obesity Fuels Fears Of Faster Diabetes Rise The prevalence of diabetes worldwide will far outstrip even the sharp increase currently projected unless rising trends of obesity are controlled, health experts said on Saturday.
Isolation of TB inmates in RP prison unresolvedThe Tacloban City jail warden has asked the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology to provide funds for the construction of a clinic and a cell to isolate 30 of its inmates diagnosed with tuberculosis.
Safer, More Effective TB Vaccine For HIV-positive People DevelopedA more effective TB vaccine may help curtail the global spread of the disease, especially in HIV-positive people, for whom tuberculosis is the leading cause of death worldwide.
37 pictures the world must see"I'm working on a story that the world needs to know about. I wish for you to help me break it, in a way that provides spectacular proof of the power of news photography in the digital age" - James Nachtwey. Prepare to be shocked and moved.
Could IMF Loans Be Causing TB Deaths?The International Monetary Fund this week denounced a study that links its loans to a rise in deaths from tuberculosis (TB) in the former republics of the Soviet Union and in eastern Europe.
Activists Hail U.S. Senate Approval of Major AIDS BillAIDS and global health activists are hailing Wednesday's approval by the U.S. Senate of an unprecedented five-year, 48-billion-dollar bill to fight AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis overseas, particularly in Africa.
How Tuberculosis Bacteria Hide And Multiply In The Human BodyResearchers at the University of British Columbia and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute have discovered how tuberculosis (TB) bacteria hide and multiply in the human body and are working toward a treatment to block this mechanism of infection.
TB Patient Faces Felony Charges in Ariz.PHOENIX (AP) -- A man with a virulent form of tuberculosis who once was confined to a hospital jail ward for failing to wear a mask in public has been indicted on felony charges.
Health school gets £20m from Gates foundationThe London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine is to receive more than £20m from a foundation set up by computer mogul Bill Gates to help the fight against malaria, TB and HIV/Aids. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has said it will give the school $46.4m to help find new a …
Faster TB test results on the wayA blood test which enables doctors to rule out tuberculosis (TB) infection in days rather than weeks has been developed by UK researchers. It could prevent patients having to undergo lengthy investigations and allow them to begin treatment more quickly, they said.
Drug-Resistant TB at Record Levels - New York TimesMultiple-drug-resistant tuberculosis cases in parts of the former Soviet Union have reached the highest rates ever recorded and could soar even higher, spreading the bacterial disease elsewhere, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday in releasing findings from the largest …
Drug resistant TB 'at new high'Drug resistant tuberculosis has hit the highest levels ever recorded, according to a report on the disease from the World Health Organisation (WHO).
TB Or Not TB: The Alien Health Threat''A 2005 report in the Journal of the American Medical Association documented one of the consequences of illegal immigration — the reappearance of infectious diseases long thought eradicated or under control.
Smart pillbox joins the fight against TBA novel electronic pillbox prompts TB patients to take their antibiotics regularly, and could identify those who don't.
10 humanitarian crises forgotten (but not gone)If doctors edited newspapers... The frontline physicians at Médecins Sans Frontières have chosen the 10 humanitarian crises that should have been given more coverage in 2007. Colombia
Woman Found With Dangerous Strain Of TB woman isolated with virulant strain of TB
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