[ricks_place]

Border control is more than stopping illegal entry. The American population needs protection from infectous people entering the US.

[CindyDawg]

When you have circulated air, everyone is exposed.

[raynearhood]

Does that include Americans that were infected overseas just trying to get back home? The article seems to indicate that she is a native of Nepal but lives in California. I would venture to guess that she is naturalized and may have been infected during an extended visit with family overseas.

I agree with your statement, but - pending further information - this isn’t the article to prove the point.

[Ditter]

This really makes you want to travel.

NOT!!!!!!

[raynearhood]

What this article probably could argue is tactics used by airlines to combat this from happining in the future.

Or, perhaps personal responsibility to know as much as possible about the disease that you have, and what measures you can take to mitigate the risk of infected others... such as not traveling while displaying symptoms and wearing a face mask when symptoms are not being displayed while in enclosed areas.

[Jane Austen]

What the heck is she doing in this country?

[VOA]

bump

[org.whodat]

Don’t you just love what a great job, the CDC and homeland security are doing to protect American citizens. Way to go JORGE.

[pandoraou812]

Prayers for all the people she exposed TB to. I don’t plan to travel by air anymore. But there has to be some type of screening done IMO. I am tired of the diseases that are now entering this country. If she was well aware she was sick she is responsible for her actions & she ought to face some kind of charges.

[VOA]

Interesting side-bar story:

http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/Stock%20News/945875/
excerpt:

But because of the huge political, legal and technical challenge of
amassing medical information from multiple nations and then connecting
that in real time to the global transportation system, setting up
a drug-resistant TB screening system is probably impossible, said Dr.
Mario Raviglione, director of the World Health Organization’s
Stop TB Department in Geneva.

“In the majority of situations, you discover the case afterward,
unfortunately,” Raviglione said Thursday.

Consider the case of a Chechen who traveled with his wife and two
children from Beirut, Lebanon, to Paris on a five-hour commercial flight
in October 2006. The man died 10 days later, from a strain of XDR
tuberculosis resistant to nine anti-TB drugs.

The French Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization
searched for 11 passengers sitting near the man, who was coughing and
considered extremely contagious.

But with passengers dispersing to the United States, Panama, Morocco
and other countries, health officials found only seven of them.

[SeeSalt]

US consulates from countries where TB is rampant(India, Nepal, Sri Lanka etc)should be cautious in granting entry visa in US.They should ask for TB health or TB vaccination certificate.If there is any indication of the history of active TB, that person should be denied entering in US. The US population is the most vulnerable in the world in terms of getting TB.

[Krankor]