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U.S. health officials seek people who may have contacted TB patient

By Suzannah Gonzales CHICAGO (Reuters) – A woman with a rare and potentially fatal drug-resistant form of tuberculosis visited Illinois, Missouri and Tennessee this spring, and U.S. and Illinois health officials were working on Tuesday to identify people who may have been exposed to her. Now in stable condition at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Maryland, the patient initially was held in respiratory isolation at a suburban