A Sunnyvale woman diagnosed with a drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis who traveled from India to the Bay Area in December may have infected another passenger on her flight, health officials said this week.The passenger on the woman's Dec. 13 flight from New Delhi to Chicago and San Jose recently tested positive for inactive TB, said Santa Clara County Public Health spokeswoman Joy Alexiou, though it's not clear how that person contracted the disease.
The newly infected person, who was not identified, was one of 44 people who sat within 16 rows of the Sunnyvale woman on the flight from India to Chicago. The woman was reportedly diagnosed in India and then flew home.
U.S. health officials were unaware of her health status until she checked into the emergency room at Stanford on Dec. 19. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention then began monitoring the 44 passengers because they sat near her for more than eight hours. News reports of the woman's illness surfaced at that time.
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