NEWPORT, Delaware (WPVI) -- The CDC is working to respond to a multi-state outbreak of tuberculosis, and Delaware is included. More than 100 people in multiple states have been allegedly exposed ...
DENVER — An Atlanta attorney will have surgery next month to remove lung tissue infected with extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, hospital officials said today. Andrew Speaker will have surgery ...
The number of patients reporting tuberculosis symptoms after surgeries involving recalled human tissue has spiked above 70 in the nation and to 30 in Indiana, with at least two suspected cases in ...
Delaware and federal health officials are investigating reports of patients contracting tuberculosis following certain spinal surgeries, part of an outbreak of more than 100 cases nationwide. Richard ...
The remarkable accomplishments of the antituberculous drugs, which today bring 80 per cent of the patients to the sputum-negative state, after six months of original treatment, have, in turn, affected ...
A Michigan woman has died just months following an elective back surgery after doctors discovered the bone graft material used in her surgery was contaminated with tuberculosis. The material came from ...
About 4.2 million people worldwide die every year within 30 days of surgery -- more than from HIV, tuberculosis and malaria combined, a new study reports. The findings show that 7.7 percent of all ...
THE death rate from tuberculosis in the United States has fallen from about 200 per 100,000 population in 1900 to 4.3 in 1963. The disease is no longer the frightful menace that it was at the turn of ...
Tuberculous peritonitis is a bacterial infection that affects the peritoneum. It commonly causes abdominal pain and fever, but symptoms may also include weight loss, tiredness, and a loss of appetite.