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Officials will test all of the approximately 255 Wildwood Correctional Complex inmates for tuberculosis after two prisoners received positive TB test results Tuesday. The Alaska Department of Corrections confirmed the positive results...
FAIRBANKS (AP) -- Relatives of a young Fort Yukon girl who died from tuberculosis expected to get her remains from a makeshift Sitka mausoleum this summer. But when the burial chamber for 7-year-old Agnes...
...spending his life tending streams, lakes and forests. Then one day dark clouds rolled in. Enoch's father was stricken with tuberculosis and was told he would have to be treated in a sanatorium for an extended period of time. This meant the would-be conservationist...
...had been different, nursing seemed to be the path she was meant for. At 4 years old, Leamer's grandfather died from tuberculosis, the same disease that later claimed her mother's life. She recalls being at the hospital where her grandfather was in...
...posting a big increase in the rate of tuberculosis last year. Health officials say the...largely to two separate outbreaks. While tuberculosis declined 7 percent nationwide, continuing...for Disease Control and Prevention. Tuberculosis is a bacterial infection spread through...
...working with families of long-dead tuberculosis victims contained in a bunker that...147 victims of a post-World War II tuberculosis epidemic. ''The neat thing about...award out of 110 nominated. During the tuberculosis epidemic, people had come from all...
...A higher-than-average number of positive tests for tuberculosis at the Coast Guard Air Station in Sitka has prompted the...request it. A positive skin test does not mean a person has tuberculosis, but it indicates they were exposed to the respiratory disease...
...started working with the Public Health Service in Alaska, tuberculosis and infectious diseases were the major killers. ''Kids...homes.'' Today, James said, it is rare to get an active tuberculosis case. ''What has improved tremendously is immunizations...
...wearing clothes, Wensley said. She laughed at the story. "Oh boy," Henley said. She had probably been there doing tuberculosis tests and vision screenings, she remembered. "Well, people do look different in the pool than when they're dressed...
...intact in 1945 to a bride from whom he had been separated longer than he had known. My mother was 12 when her mother died of tuberculosis, leaving her to raise her 7-year-old brother in the households of a series aunts while her father was on the road as...