Read more TB stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/5827/tb.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 9:24:22 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/32411/for-tb-clues-researchers-turn-to-bones.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagScientists are analyzing bones found in the ancient city of Jericho, in what's now the West Bank, for clues to fighting tuberculosis. The German, Israeli, and Palestinian researchers hope the 6,000-year-old DNA they're studying will reveal how the disease evolves and how to combat it.http://www.newser.com/story/32411/for-tb-clues-researchers-turn-to-bones.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 14 Jul 2008 18:50:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/3815/doctors-give-tb-fugitive-good-news.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTB patient Andrew Speaker is not quite as sick as planeloads of people feared, Reuters reports. A doctor from Speaker's Denver hospital says the Atlanta lawyer, who flew to Europe despite warnings that he was highly contagious, doesn't have XDR—or extensively drug-resistant—tuberculosis, but rather the more treatable multi-drug-resistant...http://www.newser.com/story/3815/doctors-give-tb-fugitive-good-news.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 03 Jul 2007 17:21:55 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/2705/tb-patient-family-ties-revealed.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe quarantined tuberculosis patient is an Atlanta lawyer who recently married the daughter of a CDC TB researcher, CNN reports. Andrew Speaker, 31, took a private plane to Denver today to be treated for extremely drug-resistant TB, or XDR TB. Microbiologist Robert Cooksey says he knew of his son-in-law's infection...http://www.newser.com/story/2705/tb-patient-family-ties-revealed.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 31 May 2007 16:04:06 CDT