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TB infected man coming to Denver ( from Atlanta's CDC )
Rocky staff and wire reports ^ | May 30, 2007

Posted on 05/30/2007 8:43:23 AM PDT by george76

A man diagnosed with a rare strain of tuberculosis will be flown to Denver for treatment at the National Jewish Medical and Research Center.

This morning, officials at Denver’s National Jewish Medical and Research Center weren’t sure when the now world-famous TB patient would arrive for treatment.

"I think they’re still figuring out how he’s going to get here," said hospital spokesman William Allstetter. The unidentified patient was transferred from New York to Atlanta on a CDC airplane.

Allstetter stressed that National Jewish, which is world renown for treatment of respiratory and immune disorders, is well-prepared to handle the case.

"We treat about a half dozen very drug-resistant TB cases a year," Allstetter said. "The doctors know how to take care and isolate people and we’ve never had any trouble with people contracting that disease (from a TB patient like the Atlanta-area man)."

The patient will be treated in a isolation ward that’s specially pressurized so air only flows into that the room, he said. Air within the room is pumped through a filter where ultra violet light kills any airborne bacteria.

(Excerpt) Read more at rockymountainnews.com ...


TOPICS: Canada; Culture/Society; US: Colorado; US: Georgia; US: New York
KEYWORDS: airborne; airbornebacteria; bacteria; cdc; drugresistanttb; nationaljewish; tb; tuberculosis; xdrtb
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Is he flying commercially or in a private jet from Atlanta to Denver ?

He may have a *cough*

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1 posted on 05/30/2007 8:43:25 AM PDT by george76
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To: cherry

A man with a form of tuberculosis so dangerous he is under the first U.S. government-ordered quarantine since 1963 told a newspaper he took one trans-Atlantic flight for his wedding and honeymoon and another because he feared for his life.

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/health/13409988/detail.html?rss=den&psp=news


2 posted on 05/30/2007 8:44:56 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: sageb1

The man told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that while doctors told him they preferred that he put off his long-planned wedding in Greece, they didn’t order him not to fly.

He knew that he had tuberculosis, but didn’t think he was a danger, he said.

“We headed off to Greece thinking everything’s fine,” said the man, who declined to be identified in the newspaper because of the stigma attached to his diagnosis.


3 posted on 05/30/2007 8:46:08 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: TigersEye

ping


4 posted on 05/30/2007 8:46:18 AM PDT by pandoraou812 ( zero tolerance to the will of Allah ...... dilligaf? with an efg.....)
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To: george76

‘The unidentified patient ‘

Why is this 2007 version of Typhoid Mary granted anonymity?


5 posted on 05/30/2007 8:47:40 AM PDT by Badeye (You know its a kook site when they ban the word 'kook')
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To: neverdem; colorado tanker

Health officials worry about “multidrug-resistant” TB, which can withstand the mainline antibiotics isoniazid and rifampin. The man was infected with something even worse — “extensively drug-resistant” TB, also called XDR-TB, which resists many drugs used to treat the infection.

There have been 17 U.S. XDR-TB cases since 2000, according to CDC statistics.


6 posted on 05/30/2007 8:47:43 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: Badeye

It shouldn’t be too hard for any competent news organization to identify this guy, we know most of his itinerary, we know he got married in Greece, we know he flew back to Montreal, rented a car and drove to New York. Lots of fodder for investigative reporters, if any of them are interested in a challenge.


8 posted on 05/30/2007 8:50:59 AM PDT by 3AngelaD (They've screwed up their own countries so bad they had to leave, now they're here screwing up ours.)
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To: 3AngelaD

Denver...just like in The Stand.


9 posted on 05/30/2007 8:54:04 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: george76

Wouldn’t it be a good idea to quarantine his new bride for a few weeks as well?


10 posted on 05/30/2007 8:54:46 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: george76

This idiot was told not to travel in Europe and yet he took flights anyway to Canada then drove across the border into the U.S. so he could get married. Way to go! A public stoning sounds about right!


11 posted on 05/30/2007 8:55:12 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: JackRyanCIA

If we get Hillary’s ‘free’ health care here, then there will be another flood of illegals from all over the world.


12 posted on 05/30/2007 8:57:59 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76
"I think they’re still figuring out how he’s going to get here," said hospital spokesman William Allstetter.

Coffin? Urn? Why are they moving him, what is the risk assessment madness in that? Oh, unlimited tax dollar budget.

13 posted on 05/30/2007 8:59:24 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (Fred Thompson in 2008 - there is no doubt about it!)
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To: PAR35

Seems logical.

a good idea to quarantine his new bride for a few weeks as well?


14 posted on 05/30/2007 8:59:37 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: 3AngelaD

This seems confusing if he was legal :

Montreal, rented a car and drove to New York


15 posted on 05/30/2007 9:00:32 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76
If we get Hillary’s ‘free’ health care here, then there will be another flood of illegals from all over the world.

Illegals and the 'poor' already get free health care. Just go to the emergency room some night to see ...

16 posted on 05/30/2007 9:00:48 AM PDT by ColdWater
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To: JackRyanCIA; george76

This strain often arises naturally from cases of ordinary TB, as the bug develops resistance to the drugs being used to treat it. This is probably not a case of an imported disease.


18 posted on 05/30/2007 9:02:50 AM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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To: 3AngelaD

‘It shouldn’t be too hard for any competent news organization to identify this guy, we know most of his itinerary, we know he got married in Greece, we know he flew back to Montreal, rented a car and drove to New York. Lots of fodder for investigative reporters, if any of them are interested in a challenge.’

I know, which then causes you to wonder how it is ALL OF THEM seem to have decided at the same time not to identify the man.


19 posted on 05/30/2007 9:03:44 AM PDT by Badeye (You know its a kook site when they ban the word 'kook')
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To: george76

It begs the question “Where did HE get the TB from?” must have been someone else here in the states, I hope they grill him on this.


20 posted on 05/30/2007 9:04:35 AM PDT by Vinnie_Vidi_Vici
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