[omnivore]

So he was in France, Czech Republic, and Italy at least. Likely more countries. The get him on the phone when he's in Italy and tell him to stay put or not come back or something. At that point maybe they even canceled his return flight to the US or put out some kind of warning to US airport customs. So maybe he got a flight to Canada as a way of getting around the fact that he couldn't get a direct flight back? If so, sounds like a security hole. You'd think we'd coordinate stuff like this better with airlines all over. Like if the guy is this dangerous, State Dept. should alert other countries so he can't legally cross borders or get on or off airplanes anyplace. Possibly he ended up getting the flight from Czech Repub. because his travel options were closing down in France and Italy, maybe Czech Repub. just hadn't gotten the memo yet that he wasn't supposed to fly. This sounds like a real cluster-F, is why the guy ended up with the weird sounding itinerary. Plus that he was non-compliant, both in leaving the US, and after they got hold of him in Italy.

Am I reading that right?

[TornadoAlley3]

.....officials said the man had recently been diagnosed with TB and knew when he left the United States on May 12 that he should not travel.

After testing revealed his tuberculosis was “extensively drug-resistant,” he was contacted in Europe by health authorities and told not to take a commercial flight home – advice he also ignored.

Martin Cetron, a physician who directs CDC’s Division of Global Migration and Quarantine, said he spoke to the man by phone Friday and directed him to go to a New York hospital. The man went willingly.

Although the man had broken the “covenant of trust” that is usually sufficient to keep infectious TB patients from willfully exposing others, “from our perspective no laws were broken here,” Gerberding said.

“XDR-TB” is rare in the United States, with only 49 cases detected since 1993, of which at least 12 were fatal, according to the CDC.

This month, public health officials in Arizona obtained a court order allowing them to confine and treat a 27-year-old dual Russian-U.S. citizen who had undergone months of TB treatment in Russia, where he had often been homeless. He is undergoing treatment for XDR-TB in a Phoenix hospital.

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