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Airlines’ Experience Shows it is Your Immune System that Gets You Sick, Not the Virus or Bacteria

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Provocative new research suggests international rules that ban potentially infectious tuberculosis patients from flying are too stringent, and airline passengers are really at little risk from catching TB from a fellow traveler.

The paper is controversial. U.S. health officials disagree, and a prominent TB expert says the findings are based on paltry data and current guidelines are appropriate.

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