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MISSOURI: Senate Passes Bill to Increase Tuberculosis Screenings and Penalize Spreading the Disease

On February 14, the Missouri Senate voted unanimously to approve a bill requiring TB screening for more people and allow prosecution of those who spread the disease.

Published
21 February 2013
From
CDC National Prevention Information Network
TB prevention
Latent TB germs can hide in marrow cells, study says

Scientists have found a hiding place in the body where bacteria that cause tuberculosis may take refuge — a clue that could one day help target treatments more effectively and surmount a major obstacle to eradicating the global epidemic.

Published
20 February 2013
From
Boston Globe
TB vaccine
Revived search for a TB vaccine may be about to pay off

After nearly 100 years, researchers could be on the verge of finding a vaccine that would eradicate tuberculosis infections, a scourge that kills 1.4 million people a year.

Published
04 February 2013
From
Reuters
TB treatment
20 million lives saved through TB care and control

An estimated 20 million people are alive today as a direct result of tuberculosis (TB) care and control, according to the WHO Global tuberculosis report 2012.

Published
17 October 2012
From
WHO
Tuberculosis and HIV
TB control – a “common responsibility”, says ECDC Director

“We must embrace the concept of common responsibility between high burden and low burden countries, creating a platform for a truly global action against TB’, concluded the ECDC Director. ‘This is why I am particularly pleased that ECDC and the European Respiratory Society have developed 21 patient-centred standards that aim to guide clinicians and public health workers in their daily work to ensure optimal diagnosis, treatment and prevention of TB in the EU”.

Published
04 September 2012
From
ECDC press release
Human rights
Ex-prisoner sues over TB

Dudley Lee is suing the Correctional Services Minister because, he says, he contracted tuberculosis while incarcerated at Pollsmoor prison nine years ago. The prison's poor conditions cause an awaiting-trial prisoner to have a 90% risk of becoming infected with latent TB every year that he is in prison.

Published
28 August 2012
From
Times Live
Money, benefits and housing
Infections among homeless could fuel wider epidemics: study

Homeless people across the world have dramatically higher rates of infection with tuberculosis (TB), HIV and hepatitis C and could fuel community epidemics that cost governments dear, a study showed on Monday.

Published
23 August 2012
From
Reuters
Prisoners
African prisons: Justice Delayed, Health Denied

African justice systems must change to help curb HIV and tuberculosis transmission in prisons.

Published
06 June 2012
From
The Scientist
TB transmission
Reducing TB transmission in ‘hotspots’ could have widespread benefit

In a recent study published in the journal PNAS, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health discovered that public health efforts to reduce tuberculosis transmission in geographic “hotspots” where infections are highest could significantly reduce TB transmission on a broader scale.

Published
30 May 2012
From
Science Speaks
TB prevention
Antiretroviral therapy as prevention: TB

Stephen Lawn reminded the audience at the International Treatment as Prevention Workshop in Vancouver on Wednesday that antiretroviral therapy (ART) goes a long way to protect HIV-infected individuals from tuberculosis (TB).

Published
30 April 2012
From
Science Speaks
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