Traveler with rare strain of tuberculosis placed under first federal quarantine in decades

"This is a bacteria that is really transmitted through the air, and generally to people who are in closed spaces for very long periods of time," Dr. Julie Gerberding, director of CDC, told ABC's "Good Morning America" on Wednesday. "I'm a very well-educated, succes...

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Published inMorning star (Wilmington, N.C. : 1990)
Main Author MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Wilmington, N.C Halifax Media Group 30.05.2007
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Summary:"This is a bacteria that is really transmitted through the air, and generally to people who are in closed spaces for very long periods of time," Dr. Julie Gerberding, director of CDC, told ABC's "Good Morning America" on Wednesday. "I'm a very well-educated, successful, intelligent person," he told the paper. "This is insane to me that I have an armed guard outside my door when I've cooperated with everything other than the whole solitary-confinement-in-Italy thing." Health officials worry about "multidrug-resistant" TB, which can withstand the mainline antibiotics isoniazid and rifampin. The man was infected with something even worse "extensively drug-resistant" TB, also called XDR-TB, which resists many drugs used to treat the infection.