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Andrew Speaker's Co-Travelers Free Of TB
November 30, 2007 at 3:13 PM
General Health News
The Public Health Agency of Canada followed up with 29 passengers who sat near the infected traveler on a flight from Prague to Montreal to see if they developed tuberculosis.
The Centers for Disease Control tested dozens more in the United States.
"Six months later, there's been no proof of transmission," said Alain Desroches, spokesman for Canada's public health agency. "That's a good sign at this point."
Of course, he added, there is still a chance of TB appearing later. "We can't rule it out because people can develop symptoms up to two years after being exposed. But we're optimistic."
The agency's analysis is based on information provided by passengers' individual physicians, he noted.
In May, US and Canadian health authorities urged passengers of two Air France and Czech Air flights to be tested for a particularly virulent strain of tuberculosis that may have been spread by a US citizen.
Andrew Speaker, the US lawyer who sparked the global health scare, had traveled on an Air France from Atlanta to Paris on May 12, and on a Czech Air flight from Prague to Montreal on May 24.
US health authorities seized him when he returned from the epic journey and put him in isolation.
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