The man quarantined with a dangerous strain of tuberculosis is likely to spend up to two months in a US hospital while he receives a battery of antibiotics and is evaluated for possible surgery, his doctors said.

AN attorney quarantined with a dangerous strain of tuberculosis apologised to his fellow plane passengers in an interview yesterday, and insisted he was told he wasn’t contagious or a threat to anyone.

A globetrotting Atlanta lawyer with a dangerous strain of tuberculosis was allowed back into the US by a border inspector who disregarded a computer warning to stop him and don protective gear, officials said.

A TUBERCULOSIS patient under the first US federal quarantine since 1963 left an Atlanta hospital yesterday and arrived at a Denver facility that specialises in respiratory disorders, officials said.