WHAT A HEEL!: Yet Another TB Traveler

 

A 30-year-old Sunnyvale, CA, infected with multiple-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) took an American Airlines flight from New Delhi to San Francisco on December 13, 2007. The 16-hour flight had made a stop in Chicago before reaching its final destination.  


"She certainly knew she had TB. She had symptoms [coughing and fever] when she was on the plane. Was she advised not to travel? I don't know," Santa Clara County Health Director Dr. Marty Fenstersheib told the media.


Roughly a week after the flight landed, the woman went to the Stanford Hospital ER, where she will be kept in isolation and treated until she tests negative for TB.


The CDC, Santa Clara county health officials and Stanford Hospital have been contacting the 44 passengers who sat within two rows of the woman on the flight, as well as patients, visitors and staff who were in the ER with the woman so they can undergo testing for TB (registration required).


International travelers who have infectious diseases apparently have no difficulty crossing our borders or boarding flights to the U.S.

Posted by The Stiletto at January 4, 2008
Categories: What a Heel
 

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