ATLANTA — Tests of hundreds of airline passengers show that no one caught tuberculosis while flying earlier this year with an infected man who caused an international health scare when he flew to Europe for his wedding.
About 250 U.S. passengers aboard a May 12 Air France flight from Atlanta to Paris have been tested for tuberculosis, according to preliminary data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. None — including 25 sitting nearest to TB patient Andrew Speaker — appear to have been infected during the flight.
Canadian health officials, who were responsible for investigating Speaker’s return flight from Prague, Czech Republic, to Montreal on May 24, also found no evidence Speaker, an Atlanta lawyer, spread the disease.
Speaker was treated at National Jewish Medical and Research Center in Denver. He was released in July and returned to Georgia.
