The East Metro Health District is working to locate everyone who came in contact with the man, who, they say, refused to follow his treatment plan and stay at home.

Anthony Underwood, 32, was hospitalized earlier this month and, on May 2, the health department was informed of his diagnosis of tuberculosis. He was released from the hospital three days later, and ordered to stay at home while the health department treated him, and until he was no longer contagious.

But Underwood was arrested May 9, and placed in an infirmary designed for inmates with communicable diseases.

Now the health department has to go back over the past three months and find everyone Underwood came in contact with, including seven children living in his Covington home.

A health department spokesman says X-rays show two of the children were exposed to TB, but no one has yet tested positive for the disease.

May 19, 2008