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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Thursday, May 31, 2007

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 31, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May 2007 stars and stripes Mideast edition Page 11 in the states traveler with rare to in Federal quarantine cd to err on Side of caution by Mike Stobbe the associated press Atlanta hundreds of health authorities around the world Are scrambling to track Down people who May have had Contact with a Man who has a form of tuberculosis considered so dangerous that he has been placed under the first govern men ordered quarantine since the director of the Cen ters for disease control and prevention said there Are two aspects to cd director Julie Gerberding one is the patient him self highly infectious fortunate in this Hes probably but the other piece is this bacteria is a very deadly we just have to err on the Side of Cau health officials said the Man had initially been advised not to Fly and that he knew he could expose others when he boarded two transatlantic flights from at Lanta to and later from Pra gue to the Man told an Atlanta newspaper that he took one flight for his wedding and honeymoon and another because he feared for his the Man told the Atlanta Jour Nal Constitution that prior to his doctors did not order where a drab has been detected Norway at reports of rare to a rare form of also called resists Many drugs used to treat the last there were two cases of that France Mexico i r Azerbaijan r 1 t 1 Israel Iran Ecuador a Peru Brazil Japan Hong Kong Thailand Chile Argentina South source world health organization him to avoid flying and Only suggested he put off his Lon planned wedding in he knew he had a form of tuberculosis and that it was resistant to firs line but he did not re Alize it could be so he he flew to Paris on May 12 aboard air France flight while he was honeymooning in Italy for two health authorities reached him with the news that further tests had revealed his to was a extensively drug resistant far More dangerous than he they or dered him into saying he should turn himself Over to ital Ian officials and not take Commer Cial the Man flew from Pra out june 2 gue to Montreal on May 24 aboard czech air flight then drove across the Border to new York where he voluntarily checked into a Hospital and was then flown by the cd to he told the newspaper he was afraid that if he did not get Back to the he would not get the treatment he needed to he is now at Atlanta Grady memorial Hospital in respiratory but will be transferred to National jewish Hospital in which specializes in respiratory the hospitals spokesman said cd officials have recommended medical exams for Cabin Crew members and passengers who sat within two rows of the Man on the but other passengers Are a not considered at High risk of infection because tests indicated the amount of to bacteria in the Man was said Martin director of the cacs Divi Sion of global migration and Quad but Gerberding noted that health officials have had Little experience with the extensively drug resistant it is Possi ble it May have different transmission she officials simply do not know were thankful the patient was not in a highly infectious but we know the risk of transmission int even with the fact that he didst have symptoms and didst appear to be Gerberding said on Abc televisions Good morning weve got to really look at the people closest to get them skin health officials said the mans wife tested negative for to be fore the trip and is not considered a Public health they said they do not know How the Georgia Man was the quarantine order was the first since the government quarantined a patient with Small pox in according to the health officials said the Man is not facing tuberculosis is a disease caused by germs that Are spread from person to person through the it usually affects the lungs and can Lead to symptoms such As Chest pain and coughing up it kills nearly 2 million peo ple each year because of antibiotics and other the to rate in the United states has been falling for last it hit an Al time Low of or about cases per Amer health officials worry about  which can withstand the mainline antibiotics isoniazid and the Man was infected with something even worse extensively drug resistant also called which resists Many drugs used to treat the there have been 17 a drab cases since Accord ing to cd Zoellick tapped to Lead world Bank by Jeannine Aversa the associated press Washington president Bush tapped his former Trade chief and 2 Robert Zoel on wednesday to run the world embarking on a Healing process to mend wounds inflicted by outgoing Bank president Paul would succeed who is stepping Down june 30 after findings by a special Bank panel that he broke Bank rules when hear ranged a hefty compensation package in 2005 for his girl Shaha a Bank pm Bush selection of Zoel lick must be approved by the world Banks 24member the controversy Over Wolfowitz caused a staff re Volt and strained relations with european and other countries and led to Calls for him to resign from the poverty fighting the world Bank has passed through a difficult for All involved there Are anti Zoellick ties and tensions about the past that could inhibit the Zoellick this is understandable but not without he said the Bank needed to move past the adding i believe the world Banks Best Days Are still to in nominating Bush picked a seasoned Veteran of politics both in the Washington Milieu and on the International he is known for pull ing facts and figures off the top of his he also has a reputation for being a demanding Bob Zoellick has had a Long and distinguished Ca reer in diplomacy and development economics it has prepared him Well for this new Bush the president is eminently the reaction to Bush Choice was generally although some health groups and others expressed misgivings about his ability to carry out the institutions French foreign minister Bernard Bouchner welcomed Zoe licks asked whether Zoel lick was the right Man for the Bouchner said Zoellick announced last june that he was leaving his Post As Deputy Secretary of state to join the Wall Street firm of Goldman Sachs and work to develop investment markets around the Bush to Host Putin at family Maine Home Washington with russian relations under heavy president Bush and presi Dent Vladimir Putin will meet july 1 and 2 in administration officials said Bush former presi Dent George has an oceanfront compound in Kenne and the two leaders will meet the session comes when Many experts say relations Between the two nations Are at their lowest Point since the soviet the two will discuss civil nuclear missile de sense and other Bush spokesman Tony Snow from the associated press  
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