US in TB flight infection warning

US health officials have quarantined a man who may have exposed passengers on board two trans-Atlantic flights to a dangerous form of tuberculosis.

Officials say crew and passengers on the same flights, from Atlanta to Paris and from Prague to Montreal this month, should be checked for the infection.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has identified the illness as "extensively drug-resistant TB".

As it turns out this man was on an American no fly list and went through some amazing contortions to evade authorites. All this was an effort to avoid treatment in Europe and obtain it in the US. Hmmmm, wonder why.