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CDC seeks those who sat near TB patient
May 30 2007 10:08PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Health officials in North America and Europe sought passenger lists Wednesday for two trans-Atlantic airline flights in their effort to find about 80 people who sat near a honeymooner infected with a dangerous drug-resistant form of tuberculosis.
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CDC seeks those who sat near TB patient
May 30 2007 10:08PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Health officials in North America and Europe sought passenger lists Wednesday for two trans-Atlantic airline flights in their effort to find about 80 people who sat near a honeymooner infected with a dangerous drug-resistant form of tuberculosis.
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CDC seeks those who sat near TB patient
May 30 2007 10:08PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Health officials in North America and Europe sought passenger lists Wednesday for two trans-Atlantic airline flights in their effort to find about 80 people who sat near a honeymooner infected with a dangerous drug-resistant form of tuberculosis.
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Cancer expected to skyrocket in Asia
May 30 2007 10:05PM (CT)
SINGAPORE (AP) - Asia is bracing for a dramatic surge in cancer rates over the next decade as people in the developing world live longer and adopt bad Western habits that greatly increase the risk of the disease.
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Problem pet food ingredient in US feed
May 30 2007 6:04PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The same industrial chemical that led to a massive pet food recall was used in animal feed ingredients made by a U.S. company, health officials said Wednesday.
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US probes how TB traveler crossed border
May 30 2007 5:15PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The government is investigating how the globe-trotting tuberculosis patient drove into the country after his name was put on a watch list _ and given to U.S. border guards.
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US probes how TB traveler crossed border
May 30 2007 5:15PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The government is investigating how the globe-trotting tuberculosis patient drove into the country after his name was put on a watch list _ and given to U.S. border guards.
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US probes how TB traveler crossed border
May 30 2007 5:15PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The government is investigating how the globe-trotting tuberculosis patient drove into the country after his name was put on a watch list _ and given to U.S. border guards.
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Deaths in NJ after bypass surgery drops
May 30 2007 4:21PM (CT)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - The death rate from heart bypass surgery done at New Jersey hospitals fell nearly 12 percent in 2004 and has been cut in half in the decade the state has been publicizing outcomes, the latest report shows.
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UN offers new HIV testing guidance
May 30 2007 4:18PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - Health professionals should routinely offer to test people for HIV instead of waiting for patients to request it, according to new advice from the United Nations Wednesday.
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WHO warns against water-pipe smoking
May 30 2007 4:16PM (CT)
GENEVA (AP) - Smoking from a water pipe may pose the same health risks as cigarettes, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, adding that there's a need for more research into the link between hookahs and a number of fatal illnesses.
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More than half of EU adults overweight
May 30 2007 4:15PM (CT)
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - More than half of adults in European Union nations are obese or overweight and the young are increasingly making Europe a fat continent, the EU's top public health official said Wednesday.
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