Showing posts with label TB. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TB. Show all posts
Sunday, March 23, 2014

India: MSF Calls For `Rational’ Antibiotic Use In Treating TB

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MSF Briefing Report   # 8395   Tomorrow (March 24th) is World TB Day , and the focus this year is on multidrug-resistant tubercul...
Tuesday, March 18, 2014

ECDC/WHO: World TB Day - Focus On MDR & XDR Treatment Outcomes

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  Map Credit - Tuberculosis surveillance and monitoring in Europe 2014   # 8386   Next Monday (March 24th) is World TB Day, and...
Wednesday, October 23, 2013

WHO: Global Tuberculosis Report – 2013

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  Credit WHO   # 7889   Nearly twenty years ago the World Health Organization declared tuberculosis a public health emergency...
Thursday, March 21, 2013

ECDC: Live #TBChat On Twitter Friday March 22nd

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  Tuberculosis surveillance and monitoring report - ECDC   # 7019     I’ve mentioned a couple of times this week that next Su...
Tuesday, March 19, 2013

WHO/ECDC: 1 In 5 TB Patients With Extrapulmonary TB

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Credit ECDC   # 7013   While many are unaware of it, tuberculosis infections can spread far beyond the lungs. When that happens ...
Monday, February 04, 2013

Lancet: TB Vaccine Trial Disappoints

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WHO Fact Sheet on TB   # 6906     The World Health Organization estimates that roughly 2 billion people – nearly 1 in 3 – are...
Monday, October 01, 2012

EID Journal: Challenges To Defining TDR-TB

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  (From the 2011 TB Progress Report )   # 6600   In January of this year reports began to emerge out of India regarding what was...
Monday, March 19, 2012

WHO-ECDC: Joint Report On Tuberculosis In Europe

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    # 6233   World TB day is March 24nd, and the ECDC , the World Health Organization , the CDC , along with many other partne...
Friday, January 13, 2012

NPR Science Friday: McKenna On Resistant TB

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  # 6069     Later today ( Friday, January 13th ) Maryn McKenna will be a guest during the first hour ( 2 –3 pm EST ) on NPR ’s ...
Thursday, January 12, 2012

ECDC Comment On Drug Resistant TB In India

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      # 6067     While more than a little discomfiting, in recent years we’ve grown accustomed to hearing about MDR-TB ( multi-...
Wednesday, July 20, 2011

WHO: Blood Tests To Detect Active TB Unreliable

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      # 5703   Although following story was telegraphed earlier in the week by comments to the press by Mario Ravigli - the dire...
Thursday, April 21, 2011

Lancet Study: TB Screening

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      # 5509     The World Health Organization estimates that roughly 2 billion people – nearly 1 in 3 – are infected with th...
Thursday, March 24, 2011

MMWR: Tuberculosis Trends In The United States

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  # 5440   Today’s MMWR from the CDC , released on this World TB Day , contains two reports on the incidence of Tuberculosis i...