Posted on 05/30/2007 10:35:22 AM PDT by Cinnamon Girl
Here in Pittsburgh, they track people. names go to the Feds.
Funny, I was going to include the NSLDS (National Student Loan.....) on an above post. I recently returned to school, and they’re making things difficult with a loan that I repaid TWENTY years ago!!!
Damn right it should!
But now they say it isn't transmitted by a casual interaction with the public. But if you sat two rows in front or behind him, well, that's not considered casual?
Now, we wait..
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Involuntarily, I hope.
OMG- I ordered something once, went to college, and just found out after my dad died that he paid for it 20+ years ago... Still have the records though.
The CDC still bears the responsibility here if the man is/was so dangerous. The man was obviously out in the public before he left the country and the CDC allowed it. NOW they’re playing CYA.
Something(s) about this story that don’t add up:
1) Did his fiance know about the TB?
2) Why all the trips to different places in Europe?
3) Is it really possible to feel good enough with this type of TB to want to go to a distant country to get married and then go on a honeymoon. If it is this deadly, why didn’t this guy feel terribly sick?
4) Why does he need to go to Denver for treatment?
5) How was he infected?
6) Have his co-workers been notified of possible infection?
Record Clubs are the biggest ripoffs known to man. I think they were dreamed up by a rich Prince in Nigeria...the one who needs some of your money to free up tons of his.
"I'm a very well-educated, successful, intelligent person," he told the paper.
Also an arrogant SOB; the world revolves around him and he can put hundreds at risk because of his megalomania.
Why isn't he being prosecuted? Why isn't he being identified?
His actions were premeditated and, if anyone comes down with his disease, he will certainly be a former "very well educated, successful intelligent person"...
LOL!
I don't often agree with you, but...
Nothing personal assumed.
But enjoyment of good science fiction does demand a few requisites.
We rabble have to have some fun, occasionally too!
At the expense of a delusional criminal megalomaniac seems to fit the bill.
That is what I have wondered also.
The guy is a dual citizen from Russia, but I wonder on his choice of honeymoon spots.
According to this Italian news report:
"The infected patient flew from Atlanta to Paris on May 12, arriving May 13 on Air France Flight 385. The next day, he traveled on Air France Flight 1232 from Paris to Athens, one of 152 passengers. He remained in Greece until May 21, said Yiannis Pieroutsakos, director of the Greek Center for the Control and Prevention of Diseases. He then traveled to Rome, where he stayed until leaving for Prague on May 24 aboard Czech Air Flight 727, airline spokeswoman Daniela Hupakova said. Later on May 24, he took Czech Air Flight 410 from Prague to Montreal, then drove into the United States, according to the CDC. Meanwhile, Air France-KLM has been asked by French health authorities to provide lists of all passengers seated within two rows of the infected man, a spokeswoman said. She said that Air France uses high-efficiency particulate air filters on its planes, which mean that 50 percent of the air circulating is new and 50 percent is recycled. French health officials said they would give a passenger list of the May 13 flight to their counterparts abroad - leaving it to them to decide how to inform passengers from their countries. Pieroutsakos, the Greek health official, said the U.S. Embassy in Athens alerted Greek authorities about the man only after he had left. He said Greek officials were ``obviously watching this closely.'' Tuberculosis usually affects the lungs, and can lead to symptoms such as chest pain and coughing up blood. Caused by germs that are spread from person to person through the air, it kills nearly 2 million people each year around the world. The man in question is believed to have the rare and ``extensively drug-resistant'' TB - or XDR-TB - which does not respond to at least three of six classes of second-line drugs."
Correct. He chose this. Forget about his anonymity...let's get his name out there.
He also showed how easy it is for someone on the no-fly list to get into the country.
Gay and stupid!
Somehow I think passengers on those flights probably have already figured it out.
They quarantined him after his trip. Apparently he was the same as before. It doesn't seem that anything had changed. Maybe CDC got new info or discovered that they'd blown it by NOT quarantining him. And there's this little gem in the article : But Gerberding noted that U.S. health officials have had little experience with the "extensively drug-resistant" form.
I think they're playing CYA and letting this guy get slammed for their mistake.
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