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CDC Seeks Those Who Sat Near TB Patient

Wednesday, May 30, 2007 8:35:54 PM
By MIKE STOBBE

Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Ga., is shown Wednesday May 30, 2007. An unidentified man with a form of tuberculosis so dangerous that he is under the first U. S. government-ordered quarantine since 1963 is at Atlanta's Grady Memorial Hospital in respiratory isolation. (AP Photo/Gene Blythe)ATLANTA (AP) - 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 honeymooner 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.

"The investigation is just beginning. It's very challenging," said Dr. Martin Cetron, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's division of global migration and quarantine.


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