The World Health Organization will help trace international passengers who may have been exposed to drug-resistant tuberculosis on flights this month.
The Geneva-based arm of the United Nations will track travelers living outside the U.S., Canada and Europe, with the aim of testing any who might have caught TB on two transatlantic flights, said Mario Raviglione of the WHO’s Stop TB department.
Health officials from the U.S., Canada, Italy, Greece and the Czech Republic held a teleconference Wednesday to discuss the case of a TB-infected man who took the flights. While he wasn’t believed to be highly infectious, hundreds of passengers may have been exposed, especially those who sat within two rows of him.
Flight information
Officials are seeking passengers who may have sat near:
The CDC does not yet have seat information for these flights:
Passengers at highest risk were within two rows of the man.
