U.S. isolates traveler infected with super-TB
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The United States has placed in isolation a man who may have exposed fellow passengers and crew on two May trans-Atlantic flights to a tuberculosis strain that is extremely hard to treat, officials said on Tuesday.
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A man infected with a drug-resistant form of TB knew he was not supposed to travel overseas but did so anyway, the CDC said today, potentially exposing others to the disease. The man who is quarantined in an Atlanta hospital, however, told a newspaper that health officials who informed him he was infected said they "preferred" he not travel.
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The man with a dangerous form of tuberculosis re-entered the country when a customs agent let him pass despite knowing that he was being sought by health authorities.
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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 this month, health officials said Tuesday.
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TUCSON, Ariz. -- Pima County health officials are testing five people from Tucson who were co-passengers with a man now quarantined and under treatment in Denver for a rare, dangerous strain of tuberculosis.
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The Department of Homeland Security's chief medical officer yesterday acknowledged errors in the federal government's failure to stop a Mexican businessman infected with multiple-drug-resistant tuberculosis from entering the United States 21 times over seven weeks in April and May.
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An incident in which a tuberculosis-infected man walked past U.S. border controls in May shows how poorly the country is defended against importing infectious diseases, according to a report released on Monday.
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A US TB patient who sparked an health scare in May says doctors had told him he was not contagious.
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A globe-trotting Atlanta lawyer with a dangerous strain of tuberculosis was allowed back into the U.S. by a border inspector who disregarded a computer warning to stop him and don protective gear, officials said Thursday.
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A globe-trotting Atlanta lawyer with a dangerous strain of tuberculosis was allowed back into the U.S. by a border inspector who disregarded a computer warning to stop him and don protective gear, officials said Thursday. The inspector has been removed from border duty.
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ATLANTA, June 12 -- Health officials trying to stop a globetrotting honeymooner with a dangerous form of tuberculosis got little assistance from his lawyer father and his future father-in-law, a TB expert who not only balked at stopping the Greek wedding but attended the ceremony himself, accordi...
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Health officials in North America and Europe are trying to track down about 80 airline passengers who sat near a honeymooner infected with a dangerous drug-resistant form of tuberculosis on two trans-Atlantic flights. They also want passenger lists from four shorter flights the man also took while in Europe.
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While federal health officials agonized over precedent and protocol for flying sick people internationally, a honeymooner with a rare strain of tuberculosis panicked and took commercial flights from Europe back to North America.
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The worst forms of the killer tuberculosis bug have been gaining ground in the United States, alarming public health officials over imported drug-resistant strains of a disease that is mostly under control in this country.
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The U.S. Homeland Security Department said on Thursday it was investigating how a newlywed lawyer with a dangerous form of tuberculosis slipped through borders despite orders to detain him.
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Italian officials said Wednesday they were tracing the movements of an American man infected with a rare and dangerous form of tuberculosis who honeymooned in Rome for two days despite being told to turn himself in to health authorities.
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Border officers will no longer have the discretion to ignore directives barring someone from entering the country after a man crossed the border with a rare form of tuberculosis last month, a Department of Homeland Security official said.