TB patient faces months in care
A US man put under quarantine after being found to have a rare strain of tuberculosis has been moved from Atlanta to a specialist Denver clinic.
Andrew Speaker, a 31-year-old lawyer, could be treated for months, restricted to a room with special ventilation.
US authorities have launched a worldwide search for people who may have come into contact with him during two trans-Atlantic flights.
European officials are also trying to trace passengers who sat near him.
The European Centre for Disease Control (ECDC) considered the risk of contracting the drug-resistant disease to be low, a European Commission spokesman said.
Nevertheless it was recommending that people who sat in the same row or in the two rows in front of or behind him to be checked.
Mr Speaker travelled from Atlanta to Paris on 12 May on Air France flight 385. He returned to the North America on CSA flight 104 from Prague to Montreal on 24 May and continued his journey into the US by car.
He was honeymooning in Italy when he was told he had the rare form of TB - but still decided to return home.
The personal injury lawyer was initially placed under federal quarantine at an Atlanta hospital, the first such order since 1963.
Source: news.bbc.co.uk
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