If I understand correclty, you have to actually inhale the bacteria. So handshakes, doorknobs, etc. aren’t an issue. And the exposure has to be over a period of time. DHS and the CDC got lucky with this one. Hopefully they’ll get the bugs worked out of their response before something worse comes along.
if you wish to believe that one must “inhale” it, go right ahead. There are many ways for any organism to reach your respiratory tract/lungs.....they are discussed widely every fall as the “cold season” approaches.
You CAN inhale it and come down with an active case of TB.....that much is true......but it’s not much of the whole truth.
Not really. In the early 20th century (and probably before that), New Orleans was a TB nightmare. You could actually get it by walking barefooted through a place where someone with TB had spit—yeah, I know, who walks in New Orleans barefooted, but some did—and this was one of the reasons (or so I was told) that laws were passed about spitting on the street.
I’m not in the medical profession, so perhaps someone can correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think these are technically bacteria—I think they called them “spores” and all they needed to grow was (like mold) warmth and moisture.
Personally, if I had been on one of those planes with all the recycled air and all, I’d get a test no matter what row I was in.