TB flight rules cited as 'faulty and limited'

Government claims that a Mexican businessman infected with a highly contagious form of tuberculosis posed no serious public health risk by taking numerous domestic flights are based on faulty research and limited data, said a top Harvard physician who specializes in disaster medicine and infectious disease.

"This policy is ill-founded, poorly researched, and puts the population at risk," said Dr. Greg Ciottone, one of the world's leading ... Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Roland F. Hirsch - Oct 22, 2007 - 5:40 AM PDT
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by Roland F. Hirsch - Oct. 1, 2008

This is an article about a major and growing health issue, that of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, and the U.S. government's failure to adequately deal with it. The article would have received a higher score if officials of the agencies involved had also been quoted.

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