Posted on 05/30/2007 10:35:22 AM PDT by Cinnamon Girl
Just for the hell of it. I know y’all don’t know too much about that, but there it is!
Yeah...you are very wrong.
6 month or up to 12 month regimen ( depending on the type of TB...Pulmonary, Milliary, etc. ) of oral medication....is the norm.
That's one of the reasons that people don't comply. It's a hassle, and it's a long, long time.
First line anti-biotics are Isoniazid..sometimes called INH, Rifampin, Pyrazinamide, and Ethambutol.
FWIW-
Thanks!..I stand corrected!
I understand that it costs over a half million dollars to treat a single case of the type of TB he has, and isn’t generally successful. What if he had started an epidemic, killed millions? I don’t think he should be murdered, but if his stupidity had infected just one person then yes, he should be executed, and I think he should be locked up the rest of his life regardless. He’s obviously too stupid or too selfish and sociopathic to care what happens to others.
I agree, we should execute all stupid people.
Patient Zero was said to have spread AIDS all over the globe, essentially starting the worldwide epidemic. There’s some controversy about the accuracy of this story. I wrote a book about AIDS with a physician back in the ‘90s. She believed the Patient Zero story....she was one of the first physicians anywhere to set up an AIDS testing clinic in her office.
From WIKIPEDIA: The origin of the term “Patient Zero”
In the early years of the AIDS epidemic, there was a lot of controversy about a so-called Patient Zero who was the basis of a complex transmission scenario compiled by Dr. William Darrow and colleagues at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in the US. This epidemiological study showed how ‘Patient O’ (for “Out of California” and mistakenly identified in the press as ‘Patient Zero’) had given HIV to multiple partners, who then in turn transmitted it to others and rapidly spread the virus to locations all over the world (Auerbach et al., 1984). In all, at least 40 of the 248 people diagnosed with AIDS by April 1982 were thought to have had sex either with him or with someone who had.
A journalist, Randy Shilts, subsequently wrote about Patient Zero — based on Darrow’s findings — in his 1987 book And The Band Played On, which identified Patient Zero as a gay Canadian flight attendant named Gaëtan Dugas (February 20, 1953—March 30, 1984 [1]). For several years, Dugas was vilified as a “mass spreader” of HIV and the original source of the HIV epidemic among gay men. However, four years after the publication of Shilts’s article, Dr. Darrow repudiated his study, admitting that its methods were flawed and claiming that Shilts had misrepresented the study’s conclusions.
[edit] Other Patients Zero
"If you're going to quarantine someone," he continued, "It should be one of those icky poor people whose daddy isn't a rich ambulance chaser like mine."
(1) I'm not sure how the CDC created the problem - are you saying the CDC deliberately infected him as part of some secret program or something?
(2) The article says: While in Europe, health authorities reached him with the news that further tests had revealed his TB was a rare, "extensively drug-resistant" form, far more dangerous than he knew.
The CDC was unaware that he should have been quarantined until the tests were back. His doctor did advise him to push back his travel plans until they knew more.
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He died of AIDS in 1984 after having infected more than one hundred liaisons in LA, NYC, Montreal, SF and Paris.
He was probably not the only major of vector of AIDS in Europe and North America - but he was the source of thousands of the first cases.
What I’m saying is that if he knew he had this form of TB, so did the CDC.
As I stated on an earlier post, it would be nice if he was traveling on business. Alas, I understand he was on his honeymoon (I bet she gets a divorce REAL soon), so the family law firm may be safe from suit. Unfortunatly, while he may be sued, I am betting that people will be going after the airlines (deep pockets). But man, this guy is a real genuine, 100%, ***hole.
“But the other piece is this bacteria is a very deadly bacteria. We just have to err on the side of caution.”
Was watching the local news tonight at 9 out of Phoenix. There is a guy in one of the local hospitals with TB. He has been confined for 9 months in a prison ward/wing. No visitors, no going out. The reason he is there is because he ignored a court order to wear a mask when outside his home. Now he is whining about his confinement, “I screwed up, but this is America” yadda, yadda. My first impressions when seeing him is he appears to be a low end mouthbreather. He is also filing a lawsuit over his confinement. He apparently has supporters. At the other end of the spectrum we have this well educated, well informed lawyer. Neither one of these two seemed to give a S**T if they endangered anyone else. Just what in the hell do people think should be done with people like this? Confine them ‘til cured or dead is just fine by me.
Is there anything you want to say?
Yes, I was wrong. There was something about the way he referred to himself that made me think he was ESL. My apologies.
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