THURSDAY, Sept. 18 (HealthDay News) — Thirty-three would-be air travelers with suspected or confirmed infectious tuberculosis were placed on the U.S. government’s public health “Do Not Board” list in the first year of its existence, a federal report released Thursday showed.
Authorized under the Aviation and Transportation Security Act of 2001, the list was instituted on June 1, 2007 by the U.S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Department of Homeland Security, according to an article in the Sept. 19 issue of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, a CDC publication. Read More
