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TB traveller sparks health alertDate: 31/05/2007 09:53:17
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An American citizen who travelled home from his honeymoon in Italy after being informed that he had contracted "extensively drug resistant TB" has sparked a health alert.
Officials from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are now checking to see whether passengers and crew on the same flights as the as yet un-named patient have been similarly affected as a result of his actions.
However, CDC director Julie Gerberding has revealed that the checks are just a precaution and that it is unlikely that anyone else has been infected.
"Is the patient himself highly infectious? Fortunately, in this case, he's probably not," Dr Gerberding commented.
"But the other piece is, this bacteria is a very deadly bacteria. We just have to err on the side of caution."
The man, who is now under federal quarantine, was told while he was on honeymoon that he should make himself known to the Italian authorities on account of his condition.
However, he claims he was not instructed to refrain from flying - and so travelled back home from Prague to Montreal.
He had previously flown to Paris from Atlanta, and both flight lists are now being scrutinised.
It is the first time a federal quarantine order has been issued since 1963, the CDC confirmed.
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