OK, folks. How did he get from Paris to Greece to Rome to the Czech Republic? While a car is techincally possible, it is highly unlikely. (Last few times I rented in Europe, there was a ban on taking the car into former east-bloc countries, for example).
Second question. How did the CDC track him down in Rome? Perhaps the CIA should be abolished and their functions put under the CDC.
Do you think CDC knows how HE GOT THE DISEASE?
And homeland security should be put under the IRS. ;)
All they need to do is sign him up for Columbia House record club. Those bastards could track him down anywhere.
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."