CDC Issues International TB Alert

May 30, 09:16 AM

Current Headlines: U.S. health officials issued an international health alert and ordered a Georgia man with drug-resistant TB hospitalized under guard after he traveled abroad.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was trying to contact passengers who flew with the Atlanta-area man on a May 12 Air France flight from Atlanta to Paris and a May 24 Czech Air flight from Prague to Montreal to tell them they may have been exposed to the dangerous strain of tuberculosis.

The man traveled to Greece for his wedding and was on a honeymoon in Rome when the CDC contacted him and told him to report to an isolation unit there for treatment. Instead, he and his new bride flew to Canada to avoid detection by U.S. officials and drove to the United States, where he contacted the CDC, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

He said he told local and federal health workers about his travel plans.

I didn't want to put anybody at risk, the man told the Journal-Constitution. We just wanted to come home and get treatment.