Traveller with drug-resistant TB purposely landed in Canada (Anonymous Liar Puts Hundreds at Risk)

cbcnews ^ | Last Updated: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 | 11:47 AM ET | ap

[apro]

"He also showed how easy it is for someone on the no-fly list to get into the country.

Something would be terrorists are probably more then aware of given our "strict" [sarcasm] boarder control. Scary stuff.

[SlapHappyPappy]

We should spin this.

The man could have gotten health care in France and Canada, the two nations praised by the left, but was terrified that he would die if he did that.

So he instead undertook drastic measures to be treated in the one country he was sure could help him.

[Cinnamon Girl]

Sounds like you want it to be all the CDC’s fault. I haven’t read everything, but maybe the CDC didn’t know until they found out this guy split that he was a drug resistant case. Frankly, I think there is something wrong with the law if they can’t quarantine people with deadly contagious diseases when they are identified. But I think people are afraid it’s a slippery slope.

[PAR35]

Thanks. I was suspecting that there were additional, unlisted flights involved.

[PAR35]

Frankly, I think there is something wrong with the law if they can’t quarantine people with deadly contagious diseases when they are identified.

Such a rule would be politically incorrect, as it would disproportionately target homosexuals.

[DJ MacWoW]

I’m not convinced that you are right about the CDC’s responsibility because we don’t know what the law currently allows the CDC to do.

Man with rare TB crossed border at Champlain

The government issued the order after a CDC official reached the man by phone in Italy and told him not to take commercial flights,

They only quarantined him after he left the country. If anyone in a foreign country where he was becomes sick, the CDC will be blamed. This is CYA. If he was infectious and it can't be treated, he can be quarantined as they have now done. In other words, I think they quarantined him because of the foreign issue but he was ok to allow loose here. Sounds like politics.

[VaBthang4]

"I'm a very well-educated, successful, intelligent person," he told the paper. "Therefore, rules do not apply to me!"

[HeartlandOfAmerica]

But now they say it isn't transmitted by a casual interaction with the public.

Actually, "they" don't have a clue.

The reason this thing is so drug-resistant to multiple drugs is that it's a ... mutation of a mutation. Thats why it doesn't fit with any of the drugs now. It's outer coat doesn't match the pattern for the drugs anymore. If it was simply one drug that didn't fit, it'd be a mutation but if it doesn't respond to multiple drugs, its mutated a couple or more times.

If that's the case, the feds and nobody else on God's green Earth have ANY idea what this thing can do.

Godspeed

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

He told the newspaper he was afraid that if he didn't get back to the U.S., he wouldn't get the treatment he needed to survive.

What an idiot, doesn't he know he should go to Cuba to get the best treatment in the world?

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

And yes, I think if the CDC had isolated people with AIDS in the beginning, they probably could have reigned it in.

As I recall there was one super stud guy stewdress that spread aids clear around the world, possibly even indirectly infected Rock Hudson before the CDC even knew what AIDS was. But that could be an urban myth.

[soccermom]

1: Why didn’t he sneak into Cuba? Everyone knows health care is better in Cuba.

2: Everyone has their panties in a wad over the Mexican border, yet someone on a no-fly list can waltz right in through Canada?

[Petruchio]

Hmmmm,
Atlanta to Paris
Paris to Athens
Athins to Rome
Rome to Prague
Prague to Montreal
Montreal back to the US.

All that travel and they still do not name or provide a picture of this individual. Makes me wonder if he is a muzzie timed release suicide bomber.

[cricket]

. . .and his wife is now being tested? Under quarantine? What? Also. . .how is it; this man can protect his identify by 'choosing' not to be id'.

Also; where did HE get this?

[cricket]

If he was that dangerous and contagious, why didn’t the CDC quarantine him to begin with? Isn’t this a problem that THEY created?

Another question/issue I am wondering about as well. Seems they think Doctors REALLY gave him THE Big warning. . .OTOH. . .why not more follow-up here and stories more in synch.

So far. ..it is . . .'they said. . .he said. . '.

[Palladin]

Where did he get it? Good question. This drug-resistant TB is a disease of gay men with AIDS. He must be AC-DC.

[DJ MacWoW]

Putting all the blame on the man doesn’t sit well with me. They only panicked when he travelled. If he was contagious, he should have been quarantined to begin with. This is the CDCs mess.

[fanfan]

Might a kind Canadian set me hip as to how the hell one pronounces "Njoo"?

The "j" is probably silent.

[Xenalyte]

So it’s likely Noo or New? Or possibly Nyew, as some Yanks say? :)

Thanks!

[apro]

Interesting & scary. I found out through other news outlets that his 32 years old. Some others have been reporting he is a US citizen of Russian origins. He also flew on Olympic Airlines to the Greek island of Kyra on May 16, returned to Athens from Mykonos on May 21, and traveled on to Rome the same day.

[cricket]

Putting all the blame on the man doesn’t sit well with me. They only panicked when he travelled. If he was contagious, he should have been quarantined to begin with. This is the CDCs mess.

Well. . .IMHO it all does sound a little more than just 'inconsiderate'; though seems things could have been a little more 'clear-cut'. He certainly knew coming back was a risk; not just to himself; but perhaps others as well.

Meantime. . .WHERE is his wife? Hiding in Greece?

A lot going on here; not to mention; how long does he stay at Grady in quarantine. . .and how long does he remain the 'mystery TB man'. . .