Posted on 05/30/2007 8:43:23 AM PDT by george76
Thanks!
Yeah, but what’s with those border guards? What did he show them for ID?
Wonder what they’re doing with the XDR TB infected illegals coming across the southern border?
Was his name Mohammed or Abdul by chance? There is the possibility of terrorists sending their diseased within our borders.
TB Notes Newsletter - TB Notes 4, 2006 No. 4, 2006 Director's Letter - December 2006
1) Yes. 2) Yes. 3) If there are, the CDC sure hasn’t mentioned them. And it’s hard to see how they’d be in a position to notice a change in his condition while he was in Rome!
Yes, he is a US citizen. That info has been on the CDC website since the story broke.
“...quarantine his new bride...”
Who’d be stupid enough to marry someone in this condition? He’d have to wear a mask anytime he’s within six feet of her. Not tonight honey, I have a headache.
“I’m a very well-educated, successful, intelligent person,” he said. . . . CDC officials are investigating how the man became infected with XDR TB. He said the agency thinks he may have gotten it while he was traveling in Asia doing fund-raising work for hospitals.
http://www.ajc.com/health/content/health/stories/2007/05/29/0530meshtb.html
“I’m a very well-educated, successful, intelligent person,” he said. . . . CDC officials are investigating how the man became infected with XDR TB. He said the agency thinks he may have gotten it while he was traveling in Asia doing fund-raising work for hospitals.
http://www.ajc.com/health/content/health/stories/2007/05/29/0530meshtb.html
I’d like to know why he was still in possession of his passport. The fact that he was tells me that the CDC wasn’t serious about restricting his movements. We can b!tch and moan about evil illegal immigrants bringing diseases into our country, but from the point of view of the countries he just travelled to, the US is a serious problem in this area, since it doesn’t take any measures whatsoever to restrict international travel of US citizens that it already knows harbor this deadly disease.
Would you happen to have a link? :)
Ask and ye shall receive . . .
http://www.cdc.gov/od/oc/media/pressrel/2007/r070529.htm
The CDC says he was told not to fly, but they weren't "that interested" until tests came back showing his strain of TB was this extremely rare and extremely antibiotic-resistant. At which point they called him ... and he was in Europe!
Thanks
Depending on how the laws are written, it may actually be harder than heck.
Indeed...I can’t think of many folks who fly into Montreal...who drive across the border.
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