TB patient was hospitalized for 3 days in NYC - Bellevue Hospital.
Associated Press - May 29, 2007 9:55 PM ET
NEW YORK (AP) - A man quarantined by the US government because of an infection with a rare and exceptionally dangerous form of tuberculosis spent three days in a New York City hospital.
But New York health officials say the man did NOT transmit TB to anyone during his stay.
Federal health officials, however, say the man possibly exposed passengers and crews on two trans-Atlantic flights earlier this month.
He flew from Atlanta to Paris on May 12th aboard Air France Flight 385.
He returned to North America on May 24th aboard Czech Air Flight 104 from Prague to Montreal. He re-entered the US at the Champlain border crossing in northern New York.
The man then drove to New York City and voluntarily went to Bellevue Hospital.
He is now hospitalized in Atlanta.
The quarantine marks the first time since 1963 that the government issued such an order.
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