Man knew he had TB before flying overseas
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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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A U.S. lawyer who flew to and from Europe with a perilous type of tuberculosis to continue with his wedding and honeymoon apologized in comments aired on Friday to passengers he put at risk of infection.
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MAE SOT, Thailand  - Aid workers have discovered the first cases of "extensively drug resistant" TB among migrants from Myanmar, intensifying fears about untreatable infectious diseases propagating in the army-ruled former Burma.
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U.S. federal health officials have placed under quarantine a man who may have exposed fellow passengers to a particularly nasty strain of tuberculosis on two transatlantic flights, authorities said on Tuesday.
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The Atlanta lawyer diagnosed with tuberculosis, who caused an international health scare after traveling to Europe and back, will undergo surgery Tuesday to remove the diseased portion of one of his lungs.
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A federal microbiologist, the father-in-law of the man quarantined with a drug-resistant form of tuberculosis, will be investigated to see how he was involved in the case, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Saturday.
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The man quarantined for a drug-resistant form of tuberculosis settled in Saturday for what could be a two-month hospital stay by taking antibiotics and fielding phone calls.
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A man with a rare and dangerous form of tuberculosis ignored doctors' advice and took two trans-Atlantic flights, leading to the first U.S. government-ordered quarantine since 1963, health officials said Tuesday. The man, whom officials did not identify, is at Atlanta's Grady Memorial Hospital in respiratory isolation.
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A U.S. man infected with a dangerous form of tuberculosis who sparked an international incident when he fled health authorities arrived at a specialist hospital in Denver for treatment on Thursday.
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The Atlanta man with extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis who sparked an international health alarm by flying to Europe and back for his wedding twice ignored requests to stay put and not travel, officials said yesterday.
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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.
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The globe-trotting tuberculosis patient moved up his flight to Europe after health officials urged him to stay put &#151; but the Atlanta lawyer, in defiant testimony from his hospital room Wednesday, insisted he wasn't ducking anyone.
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A man with a rare and dangerous form of tuberculosis ignored doctors' advice and took two trans-Atlantic flights, leading to the first U.S. government-ordered quarantine since 1963, health officials said Tuesday.
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Public health officials urged the passengers and crew of the two recent trans-Atlantic flights to get checked for tuberculosis.
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The parents and in-laws of the man who set off an international health scare by flying to Europe and back for his wedding while infected with a drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis stressed that he would never have traveled if he thought he was contagious.
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A man infected with a dangerous strain of tuberculosis fled across Europe to avoid detention, taking flight after flight to stay ahead of public health officials, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday.
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Andrew Speaker, the tuberculosis patient who sparked an international public health scare in May, said he is preparing to undergo surgery Tuesday to remove the diseased portion of his right lung.