Tuberculosis Case

[boffo]

This guy is such a bastard.

The Center for Disease Control in Atlanta orders him to turn himself into Italian health authorities so that he could be quarantined and looked after for a form of untreatable infectious tuberculosis and instead the guy gets on a plane and exposes all kinds of other people to TB because he prefers to receive treatment in the U.S.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/conditions/05/30/tb.flight/index.html

http://www.thestar.com/News/World/article/219339

 

[21pro]

of course he has to go through Toronto, first...

the conspiracy theorists will have some fun with this one i'm sure.

-Mad Cow comes from Europe, then appears in Canada first before a chance of it in Texa$.
-SARS comes from overseas, then appears in Canada before questionably appearing in the US.
-International terrorists getting to the US, via Canada...
-fuck, even our gas prices go up 1st, and go up more than in the US...
etc, etc, etc...

 

[Aardvark154]

This guy is such a bastard.

You can certainly say that again! Also, he was advised by public health authorities not to travel on aircraft, but he "had to get married in Europe" even though his Fiancée was in North America! And then took several more flights in Europe after he was advised to seek hospitalization in Italy, before flying into Montreal!

Can one say selfish, insensitive, unintelligent - Moron!

 

[basketcase]

In a world of crazy,

TB patient's relative works on TB research

The man infected with potentially fatal tuberculosis is an Atlanta, Georgia, lawyer whose father-in-law works at the Centers for Disease Control. Andrew Speaker, 31, is now receiving treatment in Denver, Colorado, as health officials track down people he may have infected. His father-in-law, Robert C. Cooksey, is a microbiologist who has conducted research on tuberculosis for CDC, according to a biography on the agency's Web site.

(from cnn)