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Published online 30 May 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news070528-3

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Deadly TB strain flies around the world

Government warning highlights global problem.

A man with a strain of tuberculosis that is immune to nearly all drugs travelled from Atlanta to Paris to Prague to Montreal this month before the authorities caught up with him and got him into isolation.

It is still unclear whether the traveller infected anyone else, but worry was enough to trigger a 29 May news conference and health alert.

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