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Desperate hunt as TB patient isolated in city

March 24th, 2008
GLASGOW health chiefs are desperately trying to trace anyone who had contact with a man suffering a drug-resistant form of TB. The man, from overseas, is being treated in an isolation ward in the city’s Gartnavel Hospital. It’s thought to be the first-ever Scottish case of XDRTB, an extreme strain of the disease. It is prevalent in other [...]