ATLANTA - A man with a rare and exceptionally dangerous form of tuberculosis has been placed in quarantine by the U.S. government after possibly exposing passengers and crew on two trans-Atlantic flights this month, health officials said Tuesday.

It is the first time since 1963 that the government issued a quarantine order. The last such order was to quarantine a patient with smallpox, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The CDC urged people on the same flights to get checked for tuberculosis.

From what I've gathered by watching various media sources - the chances of this stran of tuberculosis endangering a large number of people is relatively low - but the safety of the people on the plane and apparently in the general Boston area may be in jeopardy.

ever see 12 monkeys?

ever see 12 monkeys?
I remember the film...?

Here's a worse situation: http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/06/142246&mode=thread&tid=25

Here's a worse situation: http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/06/142246&mode=thread&tid=25


That is actually similiar to what has happened in Boston. The man that was on the airplane there has that same stran of XDR-TB which last year only infected 2 in something like 6,000 reported cases. (I can't remember the exact number but it was long odds none the less.)

The authorities on the case in Boston have ordered the man there to be quarantined and it is the first such order given sense sometime in the early 60's.

ever see 12 monkeys?
One of my Top Ten.
See avatar.

Ever seen "Outbreak"? A much worse movie but yeah, lol.

Unfortunately, a degree in Law is no measure of common sense. (http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/health/4851442.html)

:rant:

Unfortunately, a degree in Law is no measure of common sense.

He's a personal injury lawyer - what'd you expect?

If this guy lives, he should be arrested and put in jail for life. I can't believe the spin he's trying to get the world to swallow...

said he was told he was not contagious or a threat to anyone.

From all indications, this is simply not true. He was told repeatedly that he should not travel by the CDC and his personal Kaiser doctors, as his condition posed a risk to others. Even if he wasn't told this (and we know he was), anyone with a brain should be able to figure it out for themselves - if there was only a slight chance of passing it, how did a healthly person like him catch it in the first place? Couldn't others catch it from him just as easily?

:rolleyes:

Top it off with the fact that this guy's new father-in-law is a fucking TB expert for the CDC (quite an amzing coincidence, in and of itself). If Speaker was too dim to understand his own condition, his FIL certainly isn't. Why didn't dear ol' dad put the kaibosh on this whirlwind global infection extravaganza?

Adding insult to injury (pun), this fuck is a personal injury attorney. Forget being forgiven by anyone for your actions, buddy. I hope you get sued into oblivion. Live by the sword, die by it, I say.

:upyours:

Finally, how scary is it that this SOB was able to move about the globe so freely, especially after 9/11 and our supposed no-fly list (which Speaker was on, btw)? I particularly like the part where the Canadian crossing guard (who knew about Speaker's illness and the threat it posed) decided the guy "looked healthy" and let him back into the US anyway.

Ye gods.

Well, he's apologized.

This should make all the potential victims feels much much better.

He reminds me of Typhoid Mary. She knew the risk she posed--she just simply did not care.

Adding insult to injury (pun), this fuck is a personal injury attorney. Forget being forgiven by anyone for your actions, buddy. I hope you get sued into oblivion. Live by the sword, die by it, I say.


Abso-freakin-lutely.

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Sorry to change the subject Lionel, but I'm sorry to tell you I just heard Charles Nelson Reilly died.

Ever seen "Outbreak"? A much worse movie but yeah, lol.

The Bestest Movie on this subject still remains one I doubt
few here have seen.

(((((((((((((((((( Panic in the Streets ))))))))))))) 1950
Starring Richard Widmark,Paul Douglas,Jack Palance and
Zero Mostel.
A Doctor and a Cop have only 48hrs. to locate a killer,infected
with bubonic plague in the slums of New Orleans.
Riveting,authentic and highly believable.
Unlike todays contrived little GenXer excursions into plight.

Sorry to change the subject Lionel, but I'm sorry to tell you I just heard Charles Nelson Reilly died.

Very likeable and somewhat deftly Whimsical.
I wonder how many Match Games they did w/o him.?

Sorry to change the subject Lionel, but I'm sorry to tell you I just heard Charles Nelson Reilly died.

Yeah, there's been a thread about that for the last week. :)