Dual TB, HIV treatment key to Africa AIDS battle

captainclaw submitted, created time 1 year 6 months (www.nlm.nih.gov)

TB, which is spread through close personal contact, has long been a problem in Africa, where hundreds of millions are latent carriers of the disease. But the growing relationship between TB and HIV has made treatment of both diseases more difficult in vulnerable populations.In turn, HIV helps to spread TB in the general population. One of the paradoxes of the HIV epidemic is that the anti-retroviral drugs that have saved so many lives contribute to a jump in TB because those who are co-infected are not being treated simultaneously for both diseases.

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Deadly TB strain flies around the world

Dolly submitted, created time 1 year 7 months (www.nature.com)

A man with a strain of tuberculosis that is immune to nearly all drugs travelled from Atlanta to Paris to Prague to Montreal this month before the authorities caught up with him and got him into isolation.

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CDC quarantines man who has lethal TB strain

athena submitted, created time 1 year 7 months (www.boston.com)

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, underscoring the threat of an emerging, lethal form of tuberculosis, issued a rare federal public health order on Monday that placed an infected Georgia man into quarantine and announced yesterday that it is searching for airline passengers he may have exposed to the disease on two trans-Atlantic flights earlier this month.

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