A man with a deadly and a highly drug-resistant form of tuberculosis who is under the first U.S. quarantine in 40 years took two trans-Atlantic flights this month and risked infecting scores of people as he traveled through Europe for his wedding and honeymoon.
The man, who was diagnosed with TB in his hometown of Atlanta and told not to travel, boarded a flight from Atlanta to Paris on May 12. He later arrived in Greece to get married. After moving on to Italy, he was informed by a doctor from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that the TB was a rare strain and taking a commercial flight home was out of the question. Again, the man ignored precautionary measures, this time flying from Prague to Montreal on May 24. The following day, the man drove to New York and checked himself into a hospital.
CDC on Monday flew the man to an Atlanta hospital, where he has been isolated. Meanwhile, the government has been scrambling to track downpeople who came into contact with the man and may have been infected.
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