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Quarantined TB patient moved from Atlanta

Infection Control Monitor, June 1, 2007

A patient diagnosed with extensively drug-resistant (XDR) TB and placed under the first federal quarantine since 1963, left an Atlanta hospital and was taken to a Denver facility that specializes in respiratory disorders, the Associated Press reported Thursday.

The man, identified as a 31-year-old Atlanta lawyer, is being treated at Denver's National Jewish Hospital, a facility that has treated two other patients with what appears to be the same strain of TB since 2000. Those patients had improved enough to be released.

The CDC and European health officials are trying to track down about 80 passengers who may have been exposed to the man on two trans-Atlantic flights. The Atlanta resident knew he had TB when he flew to Europe on May 12 for his wedding and honeymoon but didn't find out until he was already out of the country that it was XDR. Despite a warning from federal health officials not to do so, he boarded a plane May 24 and flew to Montreal despite having the especially dangerous strain.

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