| ■ Passengers With TB Were Allowed to Fly | 2010.12.17 |
| The U.S. "Do Not Board" list failed to stop three passengers with tuberculosis who boarded commercial flights this year, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention information given to congressional investigators. The list, created in June 2007 in order to stop travelers with serious infectious diseases from boarding flights, did stop six other passengers who posed a potential health risk to other travelers, USA Today reported. No one was sickened as a result of the three travelers who were allowed to board due to loopholes in the list. Those loopholes have been closed, according to a Transportation Security Administration spokesman. Neither the CDC or the TSA would provide the dates the three people traveled, what cities they flew between, or the airlines involved, USA Today reported. |