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Feds Seek Passengers on TB Jet

They may have been exposed to drug resistant tuberculosis

By Peter Fearon, Newser Staff

Posted Dec 31, 2007 4:43 AM CST

(Newser) – Federal health officials are searching for passengers and crew who may have been exposed to a rare and potentially deadly form of drug resistant tuberculosis on an American Airlines flight from India. A 30-year-old Nepalese woman, diagnosed with the disease, flew from New Delhi to... Read full story »

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