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CDC defends actions in TB case as lawyer starts new treatment
Summary with new information since yesterday, from articles in English
He then boarded a commercial flight to Paris May 12, and returned from Europe 12 days later on a flight from Prague, Czech Republic, to Canada . (article 7)
DENVER - An Atlanta attorney quarantined with a dangerous strain of tuberculosis apologized to his fellow plane passengers in an interview aired today, and insisted he was told he wasn't contagious or a threat to anyone .
" I have lived in this state of constant fear and anxiety and exhaustion for a week now, and to think that someone else is now feeling that, I wouldn't want anyone to feel that way .
Sitting in street clothes but speaking through a face mask, he repeatedly apologized to the dozens of airline passengers and crew members now anxiously awaiting their own test results because of the exposure to him .
Speaker, 31, said he, his doctors and the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention all knew he had TB that was resistant to front-line drugs before he flew to Europe for his wedding and honeymoon last month .
" He was told in no uncertain terms not to take a flight back said Dr. Martin Cetron, director of the CDC's division of global migration and quarantine .
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Source articles
- CBS News (CBS News, 06/01/2007, 638 words)
- Border guard let TB patient cross into U.S. (baltimoresun.com, 06/01/2007, 656 words)
- Tangle of Conflicting Accounts in TB Patient’s Odyssey (nytimes.com, 06/02/2007, 838 words)
- TB patient asks forgiveness from fellow flight passengers (baltimoresun.com, 06/02/2007, 845 words)
- TB Patient's Relative to Be Investigated (baltimoresun.com, 06/03/2007, 609 words)
- CDC defends actions in TB case as lawyer starts new treatment (cbc.ca, 06/01/2007, 616 words)
- ABC News: EXCLUSIVE: TB Patient: 'I Really Believed I Wasn't Putting People at Risk' (ABCNews, 06/01/2007, 394 words)
- TB man 'sorry' over plane trips (BBC News, 06/01/2007, 361 words)
- ABC News: Timeline of Speaker's TB Odyssey (ABCNews, 06/01/2007, 350 words)
- ABC News: TB Quarantines Common at Local Level (ABCNews, 06/03/2007, 338 words)
- ABC News: The TB Debate: Who Was Right? (ABCNews, 06/02/2007, 357 words)
- The Seattle Times: Microbiologist to be investigated (seattletimes.nwsource.com, 06/03/2007, 477 words)
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