No one who shared a plane with an Atlanta tuberculosis patient earlier this year got sick. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it tested 250 passengers who shared a May Air France flight with Andrew Speaker. Canadian health officials also say no one got sick on a flight with Speaker from the Czech Republic. Andrew Speaker tood the two international flights in May despite being told he had a deadly form of TB.
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Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Tuberculosis did not spread on flights
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Labels: Andrew Speaker, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, czech republic, TB, tuberculosis