Association of Corporate Travel Executives renewed its call to allow the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to track airline seating arrangements

After an international airline passenger was afflicted with a resistant form of tuberculosis, the . CDC director Dr. Julie Gerberding said the patient, who became the first person subject to a United States quarantine order since 1963, traveled from Atlanta to Paris on an Air France flight, from Prague to Montreal on a Czech Air flight and into the U.S. by car. "We're focusing in on these two airlines because they were long trips [and] our science indicates that … these are the kinds of trips that could pose a risk of transmission," Gerberding said. "The entire passenger seating arrangement will be provided to the relevant health administers along with the information we have around the passengers."