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...Doctors now understand, after 40 years of using it, how one antituberculosis medication works: Isoniazid interferes with a protective coat around the TB bacillus. The discovery may lead to new medicines that could overcome drug-resistant forms of TB...
...dramatic increase in the number of drug-resistant cases of tuberculosis has caused the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to call for forcible isolation of TB patients who are unwilling or unable to follow treatment programs. In New York City nearly one-third of TB patients are infected with drug-resistant strains...
...community must take precedence over the rights of an individual: your freedom ends at my lung." (Hamill did not mention in the story that he battled tuberculosis a few years ago and may have contracted it from a homeless person, though he has spoken publicly of his TB in the past.) Calling for "tough-love" solutions, Hamill offers a startling proposal: quarantine male street people on military bases and compel them to accept medical treatment. "The men would be treated as menaces to the public health, not as criminals," he writes. Yet under his prescription those who resist such attentions...
Pete Oberle, Dartmouth TB (So., 6-0, 210) Englewood, Colo...
Pete Fitzpatrick, Cornell TB (Sr., 5-8, 189) Cleveland Heights, Oh.-- Gained 81 yards on 25 carries and scored two touchdowns...