Suspicious circumstances around the tuberculosis joyride

So the story about the dude who has a rare and deadly form of tuberculosis and took off with his wife in around-the-world plane trips, then tried to sneak back into the country, just got a little weirder. His wife's father works for the CDC researching... yup, tuberculosis.

ATLANTA - The father-in-law of the tuberculosis patient under the first federal quarantine since 1963 works as a microbiologist at a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention laboratory that studies TB and other bacterial infections.