Yellow fever in Paraguayans

Sue Wu submitted, created time 10 months 2 weeks (www.reuters.com)

Thousands of Paraguayans blocked highways and banged on the doors of health centers on Tuesday, demanding vaccines after four people died in the first outbreak of yellow fever in 30 years in this South American nation.

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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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Federal Quarantine for TB Traveler

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A man with a rare and dangerous form of tuberculosis ignored doctors' advice and took two trans-Atlantic flights, leading to the first U.S. government-ordered quarantine since 1963, health officials said Tuesday.

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