CDC Seeks 44 on Flight With TB Patient

January 1, 2008 By PAUL ELIAS, Associated Press Writer

(AP) -- Health officials were searching Monday for dozens of airline passengers who may have come in contact with a 30-year-old woman infected with a hard-to-treat form of tuberculosis on a flight from India.



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