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TB Patient Flees Ark. Quarantine

Wednesday, July 11, 2007 6:04:34 PM

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - A man placed in isolation after he was diagnosed with contagious tuberculosis broke a hospital window and fled, health officials said.

Unlike the Georgia lawyer who was under a federal quarantine after flying to Europe with what was then believed to be extensively drug-resistant TB, Arkansas health officials said the man who fled has a form of tuberculosis that would respond to treatment.

Franklin Greenwood, 50, is still contagious, though, health officials said.


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