CDC seeks passengers after TB patient's flight
Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, January 8, 2008
San Francisco's Stanford Hospital alerted the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) after a woman entered its emergency room with advanced symptoms of tuberculosis (TB), reports USA Today. After boarding an American Airlines flight in New Dehli, the 30-year old woman arrived in San Francisco on December 13.
The hospital placed the woman in isolation, and the CDC says the chance that passengers caught the hard-to-treat form of TB is minimal. Still, the CDC is seeking out 44 passengers who sat in the two rows surrounding the woman. She is now in stable condition and will remain in the hospital until she tests negative for the disease, which resists common antibiotics.
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