1.   The backdrop is that the tuberculosis outbreak in New York has receded.

2.   A tuberculosis outbreak at a South Carolina prison shows that safeguards are necessary to control the spread of illness in confined settings, government health officials said Wednesday.

3.   A tuberculosis outbreak in the transgender communities of Baltimore and New York City may be spreading to other cities, the government said Thursday.

4.   The day after declaring war on a nationwide tuberculosis outbreak, Health Minister Adib Jatene donated blood Saturday to alert the population to alarmingly low blood stocks.

5.   Today, a federal legislator blamed a tuberculosis outbreak on Asian immigrants.