Posted on 05/31/2007 4:28:06 PM PDT by Baladas
LOL.......yep. Now they have the border agent working in administration. That ought to keep him out of trouble....NOT.
If Bush would have put the effort and money into homeland security as he did to Iraq, this sort of thing wouldn't have happened.
But he did take away TB-guy’s travel size shampoo
>>A globe-trotting Atlanta lawyer with a dangerous strain of tuberculosis was allowed back into the U.S. by a border inspector who disregarded a computer warning to stop him and don protective gear, officials said Thursday.
I suspect making an executive decision like this is well above the border inspector’s pay grade. What a twit.
There’s no point in having safety nets to catch such travelers if the nets are going to be ignored.
Somebody save us from Homeland Security.
By the time dad (and the patient) found out, the daughter had already had extensive exposure. Remember, this guy has been totally asymptomatic all along. His infection was detected only by accident, when he had a chest X-ray for some unrelated reason, and they noticed a worrisome spot on it. By that time, he would have been carrying the infection around for months (if not years), while having no idea he had it and no reason to limit his contact with other people. That’s why this whole hoopla is so ridiculously overblown. Those people on the airplanes weren’t exposed to anything that hundreds if not thousands of other people hadn’t previously been exposed to while in close proximity to this guy.
No, TB-guy didn't have any shampoo. The airport security dudes had already taken it away from him.
Yeah, now he MAKES the lists of travellers who should be stopped.
I supported Bush from his entry into the primaries in 1999, through all his many foibles including even his first couple of love fests with Kennedy and his attack on the 1st Amendment with McCain —
But, this last attempt of his to betray all of his supporters and destroy the Republican Party, for no good reason I can imagine or he can explain, is too much. I’d sooner vote for Osama bin Laden than vote for him again. At least bin Laden seems to be honest about his intentions.
TB is just not that contagious. If somebody doesn’t have an infection advanced enough to make them cough, they’d be hard-pressed to transmit it even if they were trying. The bacteria can’t survive more than a few seconds outside the body, and you really have to inhale just-coughed droplets from the infected person to get infected yourself, and it’s not like you’d automatically get infected even if you did that. Witness the lack of transmission to his new wife.
It really would make no sense to confine people just because they test positive for TB. It makes sense to confine people if and while they are actively coughing and infected with any strain of TB. This guy, now that they know what kind he’s got, should probably just be confined to his home and instructed to wear a mask when other people are present.
He`s a personal blame the other guy lawyer and they have him under quaratine? Well there goes our border patrol.
Hmmm...he’s a personal injury lawyer. He would be suing a guy like himself. Sometimes there is justice.
International TB incident triggered by man's trip raises questions about governments' response; U.S. House to investigate
By ALISON YOUNG, MIKE MORRIS
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 05/31/07
Good article, answers some of our questions.
Are you saying swapping spit with your new bride is too remote to transmit TB?
I have some questions that hopefully can be answered by some FReepers who’ve followed this more closely.
How and when did he find out he had TB? I think I read that he found out in January, but I could be mistaken.
How and when did his fil find out?
How did he find out it was drug resistant? Did his fil give him medication, and it failed to work? Did he visit a doctor for treatment while on his honeymoon? Was he required to be tested for TB upon entry to one of his stops?
Who are the “federal health officials” who advised him not to board another flight? How did they find out he had TB? If these “federal health officials” are from the CDC, nevermind. I already know they’re refusing to answer the question.
If these “federal health officials” knew, why did they merely advise him not to board another flight? Why didn’t they do something to actually prevent him from boarding another flight? Did they really expect a spoiled brat to voluntarily remain in a foreign country indefinitely, to be quarantined and treated by “doctors” of socialized medicine?
Thank you. That does answer a few questions, creates a few more.
The border patrol was shocked. Why start enforcing the border now? We’ve not done it before???
What makes it so dangerous is the fact it’s almost untreatable. If his disease is not advanced, perhaps they can surgically remove the infected tissue, then treat with whatever drugs would be most effective.
I believe they will keep testing the wife, to make sure she remains okay.
It could happen, but with the level of infection this guy has, it’s unlikely and apparently has not happened (he’s had this infection for at least a few months, and I’m assuming he and his fiancee took up “swapping spit” quite some time before the wedding). Which is why the hysteria over the risk to people who sat near him on a commercial jetliner with a heavily filtered air circulation system is going way overboard.
AIDS has a similar treatability problem, but the untreatability of a disease needs to be balanced with its transmissibility risk when deciding to quarantine people. Just because something is incurable and deadly once you’ve got it, doesn’t mean it’s easy to catch. With TB, it’s fairly easy to catch IF the person has an advanced infection that’s causing coughing — otherwise it’s pretty much the same as AIDS.
Nice talking with you about this, thanks for your input.
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