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camelot
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Posted - 31/05/2007 :  00:54:01  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
The information is a bit fuzzy right now as to how this man was allowed to travel all over Europe when he was under a USA CDC quarantine or why, for that matter, the man thought it would be OK to travel with a deadly infectious disease on packed commercial flights.


CDC seeks those who sat near TB patient

ATLANTA - Health officials in North America and Europe sought passenger lists Wednesday for two trans-Atlantic airline flights in their effort to find about 80 people who sat near a man infected with a dangerous drug-resistant form of tuberculosis.

Authorities also disclosed that the man was on several flights between various European locales over the course of two weeks earlier this month. Passengers lists for those flights were also being tracked down, they said


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070530/ap_on_he_me/tuberculosis_infection

A bit of an update
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070530/ap_on_re_us/disease_at_the_border

Edited by - camelot on 31/05/2007 01:03:28

Pelagia
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Posted - 31/05/2007 :  09:21:59  Show Profile  Visit Pelagia's Homepage  Reply with Quote
It's Typhoid Mary all over again!
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