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Brookville -- State wildlife officials plan to collect 650 deer heads from hunters in eastern and Southern Indiana next weekend to test for bovine tuberculosis.
Scientists from Africa and Europe selected for their unconventional projects to accelerate the eradication of malaria, HIV and AIDS, tuberculosis and other infectious diseases ARUSHA, Tanzania, Oct.
Tuberculosis Affects Orangutans and Humans
Tuberculosis infection rates stabilize for the first time since 1993, according to the latest report from the World Health Organization (WHO). But with over 14 million people living with TB in 2005 of which nearly 1.6 million died, there are significant challenges.
A student at North Forest High School may have contracted tuberculosis, KPRC Local 2 reports.
Poet John Keats wrote "Beauty is truth, truth beauty," then died of tuberculosis at 25 in 1821, leaving critics to argue the meaning of that particular verse.
Tuberculosis bacteria live inside one-third of the human population, but are especially threatening to people who suffer from poverty, malnutrition and such infectious diseases as AIDS. To make matters worse, drug-resistant tuberculosis strains have now emerged, and no significant new drugs are in production.
Diane Ordway spends up to 12 hours at a time in a lab with a mask, scrubs and hairnet, researching highly infectious strains of tuberculosis. She changes clothes when she enters the lab and showers when she leaves.
SYDNEY----Tyrian Diagnostics Limited announced today that Tyrian and BD will not continue their collaboration to develop a Point-of-Care test for the diagnosis of active tuberculosis .
Scotland was on Thursday declared free of bovine tuberculosis by the European Commission, following unanimous agreement by EU member states, becoming the first part of Britain to gain that status.
By D.C. Denison THE BOSTON GLOBE It’s an unlikely medical device: a sleek smartphone more suited to a nightclub than a rural health clinic. But it’s loaded with software that allows health workers in the remote northernmost Philippines province of Batanes to dramatically reduce the time it takes to get X-rays to a radiologist — and to get a diagnosis for a patient being tested for tuberculosis.
