Mum's warning after doctors 'accused son of faking symptoms for attention' only to discover it was horror Victorian disease

Coventry-based mum-of-two Megan West claims doctors 'dismissed' her concerns about her son when he had spinal tuberculosis.

My son, 4, was accused of ‘attention seeking’ with his weird walk – it was ‘world’s most infectious’ Victorian disease

A MUM-of-two has told how her son, who was suffering from the “world’s deadliest infectious disease” was dismissed by medics ...
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Tuberculosis outbreak came from infected bone grafts, CDC says. It’s not the 1st time

A tuberculosis outbreak that spanned seven states in 2023 has been tied to bone graft products from an infected donor — again. Two spinal surgery patients died from a tuberculosis infection, or TB, ...
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Child and adult spinal tuberculosis at tertiary hospitals in the Western Cape, South Africa

T. N. Mann, H. S. Schaaf, R. N. Dunn, S. Dix-Peek, K. du Preez, R. P. Lamberts, J. du Toit and J. H. Davis The aim of this retrospective review was to assess the overall burden and trend in spinal ...
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Tuberculosis Is Making a Comeback—Here's the Most Common Symptom to Watch Out For

A highly contagious and potentially deadly disease is seeing sharp upticks—and that's in addition to the measles outbreak we're dealing with already. Tuberculosis (TB) is a bacterial infection that ...