Posted on 12/02/2013 4:10:59 PM PST by bgill
Officials removed a man with an unspecified infectious disease - possibly tuberculosis - from a US Airways Express flight with 70 passengers on board shortly after it landed in Phoenix over the weekend, authorities said on Monday.
The unidentified man was removed from Flight 2846 from Austin, Texas, when it landed on Saturday after the airline received an alert from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention regarding a passenger known to have an infectious disease, a spokesman for the airline said.
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Most likely a foreign national.
TB had pretty much been eradicated in the U.S. until the hordes of unchecked, non-immunized third-worlders started streaming across the border in droves. Now TB cases are showing up all over the country.
Just which gov’t databases are being searched by TSA?
Stoopit fluck.
WTH is he thinking?
Why not just ride elevators in Manhattan all day?
The hospital put me in an isolated room, and the first question they asked was if I had recently travelled overseas.
Our general medical concept of infection prevention seems to work, at least in the situation I was in.
In my case, it wasn't TB, it was something else.
I did take it as a positive that public health was a primary concern, even at a private hospital.
/johnny
Not only this but they're bringing with them the "new and improved" strain of TB that's impervious to much of the medication that was formerly used to fight it.
Silly Homeland Security. Don’t they know that the important thing is to check for nail-clippers? I just can’t tell you how many illiterate disease-ridden jihadists have been unnecessarily harassed while nail-clippers have gotten through. And some of those nail-clippers have actually MADE IT ON BOARD domestic and international flights! In protest I have a mind to send naked pictures of my wife to the pizza-faced heroes of the TSA. Who’s with me?
"More people in the developing world contract tuberculosis because of compromised immunity, largely due to high rates of HIV infection and the corresponding development of AIDS"
Tuberculosis [bottom of first paragraph]
(Lack of immunization is probably NOT a factor. I would guess that a far higher percentage of "third-worlders" have received the BCG shot.)
"The only currently available vaccine as of 2011 is bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) which, while it is effective against disseminated disease in childhood, confers inconsistent protection against contracting pulmonary TB. Nevertheless, it is the most widely used vaccine worldwide, with more than 90% of all children being vaccinated. However, the immunity it induces decreases after about ten years. As tuberculosis is uncommon in most of Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States, BCG is only administered to people at high risk."
(speaking as one who has personally administered hundreds of BCG immunizations and facilitated thousands more in East Africa.)
I’ve heard of Whooping Cough victims coughing so hard that they rupture or bruise their lungs, producing some blood flow till it clots. Did you recently have a lot of congestion? Just asking, because about 35 years ago I had a similar experience. You have a good daughter who wishes the best for her Dad.
/johnny
Once upon a time, public health was a primary consideration of immigration policy.
No longer. The price of "diversity" includes cholera cases in South Texas.
Most likely it will be again.
TB like every other bacterium will become resistant to the anti-biotics that are currently used to treat them.
If this individual was being treated for more than 3 days he probably was not contagious. But more frequently than one would hope people will stop taking their medication after they start feeling better and do not complete the course of medication either because they forget to take the medication or because it upsets their stomach or other reasons.
Not completing the course of anti-biotics permits the bacteria to aquire resistance to the medication and so we end up with diseases like Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). In medical facilities, MRSA causes life-threatening bloodstream infections, pneumonia and surgical site infections.
BCG is used here to treat bladder cancer, as part of the immunotherapy; the chemo portion of the treatment is mytomycin.
Yep, and with TB there aren't that many. And it isn't the only one coming back - a couple of months ago I was startled to see a sign in front of the local big-box drug store: "Pertussis vaccine". What's old is new again.
ANY time you cough up blood, you need to get to urgent care YESTERDAY.
“...everyone on board had been exposed to tuberculosis and should see their doctors immediately.” “The bacteria usually attack the lungs, but can attack any part of the body such as the kidney, spine, and brain. If not treated properly, it can be fatal.”
How timely. I wonder how many of the passengers have had their health insurance canceled because of ObumahCare.
Exactly. Flight originated in Texas. Where was he before that?
Makes me wonder, with the Obama-care fiasco, if this was perhaps intentional (sadistic, twisted little pr**k in the White Hut - wouldn’t put it past him).
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