Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, March 3, 1995 TAG: 9503030125
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A-5 EDITION: METRO
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BERKELEY SPRINGS, W.Va. - With a check for nearly $10,900 in hand, a small Appalachian county reopened its skies Thursday to the federal government.
Not that the skies were ever really closed.
It was merely a symbolic gesture when the Morgan County commissioners voted Jan. 27 to close the airspace over the county's 231 square miles because of the Air Force's failure to reimburse them for cleaning up a 1992 National Guard plane crash. The Federal Aviation Administration regulates the skies.
The Air Force said last week it had found a way to legally reimburse the county, which is 90 miles northwest of Washington, D.C.
- Associated Press
TB case transmitted on airline flight|
For the first time, federal officials have documented a case of tuberculosis transmitted from one passenger to others on a commercial airline.
The transmission occurred last spring, when a woman on an 81/2-hour United Airlines flight from Chicago to Honolulu infected four passengers sitting near her. Although all tested positive for the disease, none has yet become ill. United Airlines said the woman had died a few days after the flight.
But the transmission shows that it is possible to become infected with tuberculosis on an airplane, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta recommended that when airlines learn that a passenger or crew member has traveled with the disease, they inform other passengers and crew members.
- The New York Times
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