CHICAGO - Health officials are trying to track down American Airlines passengers in 17 states for testing after a California woman flew while sick with a dangerous strain of tuberculosis.
The U.S. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention says a California woman boarded an American Airlines flight in New Delhi, India on December 13th.
The flight stopped at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport before continuing on to San Francisco.
CDC officials are trying to find the 44 people who sat within two rows of the woman on the flight. She is being treated in isolation at a California hospital.
A health official says because the disease is in its early stages, doctors don't know what her prognosis is.
