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# TB

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2022
Ukrainian charity worker speaks of colleagues deaths in missile attack
Andriy Klepikov is the Executive Director of the Alliance for Public Health in Ukraine and in Dublin to deliver a lecture and meet a Dáil committee.
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Dec 3rd 2022, 9:30 AM
Tom Brady says he has not yet made up his mind on retirement
The NFL great is ‘still going through the process’.
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Feb 1st 2022, 8:40 AM
All time
Tom Brady announces New England Patriots departure
The Pats legend penned an emotional farewell on social media.
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Mar 17th 2020, 1:16 PM
Patriots plan to extend Tom Brady deal beyond 2019, says owner Kraft
Robert Kraft expects the 41-year-old to ‘continue for quite a while’ with Sunday’s Super Bowl looming.
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Jan 31st 2019, 7:54 AM
Tom Brady is underrated
It’s easy to forget how good the Patriots player actually is in an era of great quarterback play, writes Steve O’Rourke.
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Nov 5th 2018, 1:45 PM
All staff and students screened after two cases of TB confirmed in Cork secondary school
The screenings include a skin test and, if needed, blood tests and chest x-rays.
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Apr 18th 2018, 10:20 PM
Badgers to be vaccinated against TB to stop them giving it to cattle
Michael Creed announced the initiative yesterday.
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Jan 16th 2018, 8:57 AM
Effect of new medicine in animal studies was "misrepresented" to get funding for human trials
A new report in the British Medical Journal has pointed to a “systemic failure” in the use of animal studies.
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Jan 11th 2018, 6:30 AM
The 49ers reportedly baffled Bill Belichick by asking if the Patriots would trade Tom Brady
What about the lad Cantona?
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Nov 6th 2017, 6:54 PM
Patient diagnosed with tuberculosis in University Hospital Galway
Everyone who came into contact with the patient has been offered screening for TB.
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Sep 14th 2017, 6:12 PM
Anger over calls for 50,000 deer to be culled in Wicklow
Deer experts say the calls are based on bad science.
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Apr 2nd 2017, 10:00 PM
Tuberculosis-fighting vaccine delayed again
It is now 18 months since supplies ran out worldwide.
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Dec 30th 2016, 6:05 AM
The 'War On Drugs' is driving a global epidemic of HIV, TB and hepatitis
Major new study says jails hothouse infectious diseases, which are then passed on to the wider community.
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Jul 15th 2016, 6:15 AM
BCG scars could become a thing of the past for most people
Only children in high-risk groups could be vaccinated.
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Sep 9th 2015, 1:00 PM
Children won't get vaccines for TB until June, but Leo says it's not a problem
The BCG vaccine is delayed.
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May 24th 2015, 7:45 AM
Travellers are three times more likely to get TB
And they get it much, much younger.
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Mar 13th 2015, 7:50 AM
A new antibiotic could finally turn the tide against superbugs and drug-resistant infections
And it could be just start of the discovery of dozens of new antibiotics.
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Jan 8th 2015, 12:02 PM
Irish scientists have figured out ANOTHER way smoking is bad for you
Researchers from Trinity College Dublin have discovered exactly how smokers are more at risk of TB.
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Nov 14th 2014, 6:15 AM
The Government needs 25,000 badger body bags
The Department of Agriculture regularly carries out culls of the animals, as they carry TB.
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Sep 9th 2014, 1:00 PM
Good news for babies: The BCG vaccine shortage is over
The HSE has said in June that it has problems with its supplier.
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Aug 26th 2014, 11:33 AM
Ireland culled up to 39,000 badgers in six years
The Department of Agriculture is trialling a vaccination programme in a number of counties to see how effective it is but most badgers captured are shot.
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Aug 4th 2014, 8:45 AM
As TB re-emerges, a link is found to low vitamin D in children
TB is re-emerging disease in Europe, and the study is the first study in children with a matched control group.
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May 7th 2014, 8:05 AM
TB hasn't gone away - it's a silent killer
The disease affects 9 million people around the world every year.
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Mar 24th 2014, 10:37 AM
Column: I can’t bear to look into someone's eyes and tell them they will probably die
My patients see my white coat as a lifejacket. But the truth is that the chance of surviving drug-resistant TB is down to the roll of a dice, writes Dr Jennifer Hughes.
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Mar 24th 2014, 8:00 AM
'Thousands at risk' after Doctors Without Borders expelled from Myanmar
The government defended its decision, accusing the group of creating tensions and instability.
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Feb 28th 2014, 5:22 PM
Column: Why is lung disease so prevalent in Ireland?
Ireland has one of the highest death rates from lung disease in Western Europe – only Belgium, Moldova, Hungary and Kyrgyzstan have higher mortality levels. Dr Edward McKone examines why.
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Nov 7th 2013, 7:30 PM
On patrol with Britain's badger cull saboteurs
The cull in Gloucestershire is aimed at tackling the spread of TB in cattle but opponents say this will do little to combat the disease.
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Oct 19th 2013, 8:30 AM
5,000 badgers to be killed as cull begins
Farmers say the cull will help curb tuberculosis in cattle, but animal rights groups say that the cull will not help eradicate TB in UK.
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Aug 27th 2013, 8:03 AM
Worldwide fears over drug-resistant tuberculosis
As Ireland notes record-low levels of TB, global experts have warned of an untreatable strain emerging in a number of other countries.
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Mar 26th 2013, 6:30 AM
Rats recruited to hunt for TB in Mozambique
The trained rodents are going to sniff out the disease, apparently.
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Oct 12th 2012, 5:50 PM
'Extensively drug-resistant' tuberculosis on the rise worldwide
A large international study has revealed alarming levels of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis across the globe.
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Aug 30th 2012, 6:30 AM
Higher rate of infection among homeless 'put overall population at risk'
New data published in The Lancet shows much higher infection rates of TB, HIV and Hepatitis-C among homeless people.
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Aug 20th 2012, 6:50 AM
VIDEO: How the Black Death (and potato blight) came to Ireland
Ireland was badly hit by fatal diseases over the centuries. These videos look at the history – and how Ireland coped – with some of these diseases.
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Aug 13th 2012, 7:00 AM
Tuberculosis case confirmed at Griffith College in Dublin
One case of TB has been confirmed at the Dublin 8 campus.
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May 2nd 2012, 5:29 PM
'Shocking' data confirms growing number of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis cases
On World Tuberculosis Day, health professionals have expressed their alarm over new research that exposes the levels of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis.
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Mar 24th 2012, 8:45 AM
Major Aids treatment fund suspends further grants over financial issues
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria said today that global financial woes mean it can’t pledge any more funding until 2014.
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Nov 24th 2011, 9:36 PM
Cloverhill inmates, staff being screened for tuberculosis
Staff and inmates at the prison in Clondalkin are being tested after a number of prison officers tested positive for TB.
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Oct 22nd 2011, 4:05 PM
Patient at Louth hospital diagnosed with TB
The HSE has told a local radio station that the patient suffering from TB spent five days on a trolley in the emergency department.
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Oct 21st 2011, 3:39 PM
Smoking could lead to 40 million TB deaths by 2050
Researchers warning about a significant increase in smoking-linked TB deaths worldwide have insisted that “tobacco control is tuberculosis control”.
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Oct 5th 2011, 10:42 AM
Good Morning
The 9 at 9 Nine things to know this morning…
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