Dangerous Form of TB in Atlanta, Georgia
Jodi at Webloggin on May 29 2007 at 3:20 pm | Filed under: Feature Article, Health Care
The CDC is warning that passengers on a flight on May 12th may have been exposed to a rare and serious strain of TB and should get tested. The man who may have exposed them is now at a hospital under quarantine in Atlanta, Georgia.
ATLANTA - A man with a rare and exceptionally dangerous form of tuberculosis has been placed in quarantine by the U.S. government after possibly exposing passengers and crew on two trans-Atlantic flights earlier this month, health officials said Tuesday.
This marks the first time since 1963 that the government issued a quarantine order. The last such order was to quarantine a patient with smallpox, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The CDC urged people on the same flights to get checked for tuberculosis.
The infected man flew from Atlanta to Paris on May 12 aboard Air France Flight 385. He returned to North America on May 24 aboard Czech Air Flight 104 from Prague to Montreal. The man then drove into the United States.
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