[Drango]

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.

Are you saying swapping spit with your new bride is too remote to transmit TB?

[GovernmentShrinker]

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.