Air traveler with tuberculosis

[RICHARD]

Is there any thought at the National level, how much of a homeland
security issue this could be? Is there any secuity issue that we are prepared
for? This is bad enough as just a personal health problem, but think how
easy it would be to spread disease coast to coast.

Tom CLancy, Robert Preston and a few others have written FICTIONAL TALES about an infectious disease getting loose.

The ONLY thing we have going for us is the ability to track down "patient zero" quickly and to get any people he came in contact with identified.


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Think about a disease with the ability to spred quickly- like the flu in a household..TB can be cured but that XDR TB cannot.

THe fact that you need direct contact works in our favor...it's not a fast mover!

[Freedom]

http://rhodeisland.cox.net/cci/newsn...alidatearticle

Here is the link for one article. Says he did NOT get it from his FIL's work. Uh=huh. Such a coincidence, eh?

The TSA inspector who let him fly has been fired. Good. He thought the warning was "discretionary." What, with the words: done protective mask when dealing with him." Ugh.

[rosethecopycat]

The definition of selfishness.

[Catlady711]

The news report on the radio I heard was that they guy had been treated in Denver and did not know he was untreatable or contagious, the dr. there simply said he did not 'reccommend' travel but didn't say why, the guy then went to new york for treatment but they never said anything about travel at all, then he went to get married and heard about it then and went to Canada. At least the radio report I heard on it said that but you can't believe 1/2 of what's in the media anymore.

[Catty1]

From CBC


U.S. statutes were designed to keep people in one area or state but are not specific about international travel. WHO guidelines also do not spell out who should pay to move patients or isolate them, or what the responsibilities are of health officials in the country where a traveller is staying, Gerberding said.

[Freedom]

Says he did NOT get it from his FIL's work. Uh=huh. Such a coincidence, eh?

I KNEW it! Now they ARE investigating the FIL!!!