What ever happened to the traveler with the rare case to tuberculosis? Is he still in quarantine?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18936405/ A man with a form of tuberculosis so dangerous he is under the first U.S. government-ordered quarantine since 1963 had health officials around the world scrambling Wednesday to find about 80 passengers who sat within five rows of him on two trans-Atlantic flights.
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As it turns out the media hysteria that was created by this case wasn't called for. The man was not infectious at the time, so there is almost no chance he infected anyone (unless they came in contact with his blood). Also it was determined by a third party agency that the strain of TB he had was not as danagerous as once thought.
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He is now in jail in Arizona for violating (for the second time) his quarantine, and endangering the public
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