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on a more scholarly level, this is the reason i do not watch the news. I fear spontenious head-splodey.
Here is the link from an article where the man with the super-strong-deadly form of TB attempts to justify flying around the world even though he knew he was sick. I have put in this entry a few choice quotes.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070530/ap_on_he_me/tuberculosis_infection
---A man with a form of tuberculosis so dangerous he is under the first U.S. government-ordered quarantine since 1963
---The man told a newspaper he took the first flight from Atlanta to Europe for his wedding, then the second flight home because he feared he might die without treatment in the U.S.
----"Is the patient himself highly infectious? Fortunately, in this case, he's probably not," Gerberding said. "But the other piece is this bacteria is a very deadly bacteria. We just have to err on the side of caution."
---agency was trying to contact 27 crew members from the two flights for testing and about 80 passengers who sat in the five rows surrounding the man
---Health officials said the man had been advised not to fly and knew he could expose others when he boarded the jets.
----He knew he had a form of tuberculosis and that it was resistant to first-line drugs, but he didn't realize until he was already in Europe that it could be so dangerous, he said.
---They ordered him into isolation, saying he should turn himself over to Italian officials.
---Instead, the man flew from Prague to Montreal on May 24 aboard Czech Air Flight 0104, then drove into the United States at Champlain, N.Y. He told the newspaper he was afraid that if he didn't get back to the U.S., he wouldn't get the treatment he needed to survive
--He is not facing prosecution, health officials said.
"I'm a very well-educated, successful, intelligent person," he told the paper. "This is insane to me that I have an armed guard outside my door when I've cooperated with everything other than the whole solitary-confinement-in-Italy thing."
Can this man please win "biggest selfish asshole prick" award of the year? PLEASE? honeymoon more important than NOT POSSIBLY SPREADING DEADLY FORM OF TB around the fucking world. Jerk.
Here is the link from an article where the man with the super-strong-deadly form of TB attempts to justify flying around the world even though he knew he was sick. I have put in this entry a few choice quotes.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070530/ap_on_he_me/tuberculosis_infection
---A man with a form of tuberculosis so dangerous he is under the first U.S. government-ordered quarantine since 1963
---The man told a newspaper he took the first flight from Atlanta to Europe for his wedding, then the second flight home because he feared he might die without treatment in the U.S.
----"Is the patient himself highly infectious? Fortunately, in this case, he's probably not," Gerberding said. "But the other piece is this bacteria is a very deadly bacteria. We just have to err on the side of caution."
---agency was trying to contact 27 crew members from the two flights for testing and about 80 passengers who sat in the five rows surrounding the man
---Health officials said the man had been advised not to fly and knew he could expose others when he boarded the jets.
----He knew he had a form of tuberculosis and that it was resistant to first-line drugs, but he didn't realize until he was already in Europe that it could be so dangerous, he said.
---They ordered him into isolation, saying he should turn himself over to Italian officials.
---Instead, the man flew from Prague to Montreal on May 24 aboard Czech Air Flight 0104, then drove into the United States at Champlain, N.Y. He told the newspaper he was afraid that if he didn't get back to the U.S., he wouldn't get the treatment he needed to survive
--He is not facing prosecution, health officials said.
"I'm a very well-educated, successful, intelligent person," he told the paper. "This is insane to me that I have an armed guard outside my door when I've cooperated with everything other than the whole solitary-confinement-in-Italy thing."
Can this man please win "biggest selfish asshole prick" award of the year? PLEASE? honeymoon more important than NOT POSSIBLY SPREADING DEADLY FORM OF TB around the fucking world. Jerk.