[TornadoAlley3]

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=66187

XDR-TB

[sageb1]

“At that point, he voluntarily went to a New York hospital”

So he drove down the Northway (I-87) from Montreal. What New York hospital did he go to, I wonder.

[3AngelaD]

“We have no suspicion that this patient was highly infectious, in fact medical evidence would suggest that his potential for transmission would be on the low side...” but we are going to put him in quarantine anyway. This strikes me as more than a little disingenuous.

[Grizzled Bear]

Should we ask if he wishes to donate blood? //SARC

[Suzy Quzy]

WHY would someone FLY to Montreal when he has to DRIVE to ATLANTA, his home??? This makes NO sense!! There are a LOT of flight every DAY MUCH CLOSER TO ATLANTA!! This smells a little.

[Fiji Hill]

“He was told in no uncertain terms not to take a flight back,”

How else could he have returned home?

[Cogadh na Sith]

Based on the media blackout on his identity and any details, I’m betting HIV+ gay male.....

[omnivore]

So he was in France, Czech Republic, and Italy at least. Likely more countries. The get him on the phone when he's in Italy and tell him to stay put or not come back or something. At that point maybe they even canceled his return flight to the US or put out some kind of warning to US airport customs. So maybe he got a flight to Canada as a way of getting around the fact that he couldn't get a direct flight back? If so, sounds like a security hole. You'd think we'd coordinate stuff like this better with airlines all over. Like if the guy is this dangerous, State Dept. should alert other countries so he can't legally cross borders or get on or off airplanes anyplace. Possibly he ended up getting the flight from Czech Repub. because his travel options were closing down in France and Italy, maybe Czech Repub. just hadn't gotten the memo yet that he wasn't supposed to fly. This sounds like a real cluster-F, is why the guy ended up with the weird sounding itinerary. Plus that he was non-compliant, both in leaving the US, and after they got hold of him in Italy.

Am I reading that right?

[mewzilla]

Some info at the end of this article on where the man may have picked up the TB.

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Patient zero in this case may have been from Siberia. No info in the article on whether any of the other people at the Market Hotel have been quarantined.