Passengers on Air France Flight 385 and Czech Air Flight 0104 Possibly Exposed to XDR TB
by John Little on 29/05/2007I don’t feel so bad about being too busy to travel these days:
CDC Director Dr. Julie Gerberding said authorities were trying to notify passengers who traveled aboard Air France flight 385 from Atlanta which arrived in Paris on May 13 and on Czech Air flight 0104 from Prague to Montreal on May 24.
The man, from the U.S. state of Georgia, returned to the United States by car and has been in the hospital “in respiratory isolation” since then, the CDC said. He is suffering from extensive drug-resistant TB, known as XDR TB, that resists virtually all antibiotics.
“This is an unusual TB organism, one that’s very, very difficult to treat. And we want to make sure that we have done everything we possibly can to identify people who could be at risk,” Gerberding said at a news conference.
Authorities did not identify the man, but said he had voluntarily entered a medical isolation facility in New York City.
Read the complete CDC Health Advisory if you suspect that you’ve been exposed. Centers for Disease Control also has a page dedicated to XDR TB (Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis).
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