Trans-Atlantic traveler with Tuberculosis?!?!

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After hearing the latest news about the gentleman who traveled from Atlanta, GA to Paris for his wedding knowing full-well that he had TB, I am outraged. This person knew that he had a strain of tuberculosis that was drug-resistant when he left, yet he left anyway. What about the other unknowing people on the many flights he took? I know that they have found that he had a low chance of transmitting the disease, but what if someone on that flight near him was elderly, in infancy, or immune-compromised? The Center for Disease Control ordered him to turn himself in to the Italian authorities to be quarantined and had black listed him from flying into the US and red-flagged his passport, but he went around this by flying into Montreal, Canada and driving back into the US. His reasons for this is because he wanted to receive the best medical care and felt that the only place he could get that was back home in the United States. Now, if I was in his position, I might have done the same thing - being in a strange country not knowing their policies on infectiosu diseases and their abilities to treat them would have been very scary. My main concern is that he flew knowing that he could infect someone with something VERY dangerous, yet he did it anyway, several times! What if your child was seated in front of him and he just happened to cough? I, myself, have a 2 month old son and if something like this happened to me and my son died, I would go after him for negligent homicide. Do any of you think that this man should be charged for re-entering the US when he was ordered to turn himself in? What about the other people on the flight that get sick - should them or their families be compensated for any damages? If someone dies because of his negligence, should he be charged with homicide? Just a thought!