Today, we can offer you chicken, beef
or drug resistant tuberculosis...
Posted on 12/29/2007 9:37:17 AM PST by 3AngelaD
A 30-year-old Sunnyvale woman, recently back from a stay in India, is in an isolation unit at Stanford Hospital with a tough-to-treat strain of tuberculosis, and health officials are scrambling to find any people with whom she may have come into close contact. The woman, whose name has not been released, was reportedly diagnosed with multidrug-resistant TB while in India and was being treated for the disease before she returned to the Bay Area on Dec. 13.
"She was sick when she got on her airplane," said Joy Alexiou, a spokeswoman for Santa Clara County's Public Health Department...."She finally made her way to the emergency room at Stanford on Dec. 19....
The CDC has identified 44 people from 16 states who were within two rows of the woman on American Airlines Flight 293 from New Delhi to Chicago's O'Hare airport on Dec. 13. On Thursday, the CDC sent health officials in the 16 states a list of the names and asked for help in having them tested for TB...
World Health Organization guidelines call for people with multidrug-resistant TB to avoid commercial air travel until lab tests show they are noninfectious, but that doesn't always happen.
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Today, we can offer you chicken, beef
or drug resistant tuberculosis...
If it isn't, this should be criminal
Given the twisted agenda of the MSM, if this lady was an illegal from Mexico the story of her illness would be deliberately buried. What we hear is lies, but it’s also what we don’t hear that should concern us.
Because of the recycled air on an airplane, wouldn’t that put all passengers at risk?
She was diagnosed with the drug resistant TB in India, and was undergoing treatment for it there.
Don’t thermal scanners catch people with an illness, at airports?
I actually believe that it must be the removal of all shoes that is supposed to catch these infectious diseases or is it the personal pat downs.
Lol!
The woman had to have violated public health laws - she should be arrested and her name made public. THIS is why we need immigration laws.
If this person is an immigrant she should be stripped of citizenship or green card and evicted from America.
Of course there is chance this might be some native born hippie or some such visiting India. They also need stern prosecution
No native-born hippie she. Another source says she is a native of Nepal, which means she is an immigrant, and apparently an immigrant with no concern or respect for other people.
Hmmmm I also saw that in the comment section claiming she is Nepalese. By the time we find out people will have lost interest
“..scrambling to find any people with whom she may have come into close contact.”
Start with her fellow passengers, custom authorities and work your way down to her local grocery store.
Jeez, back in the 50’s all prospective immigrants received a full physical at the American Consulate in their country of origin which included X-rays, blood tests and a meeting with a psychologist to see if the applicant would have difficulty integrating in American society.
I forgot, those were the days that our political leaders loved their country and were mostly interested in the quality rather than the quantity of immigrants.
Local radio reports in Chicago—to my great surprise—let slip that the woman was “born in Nepal” although the lead to the report still called her a “California woman.”
There are a lot of Nepalese living in India. Many work as servants to wealthy Indians and some even succeed in being servants of the same in the US.
US diplomats employ some overseas and are able to get them visa to return to the US with them as servants.(The State Dept. has special rules for themselves).
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If this woman was aware of the gravity of her illness, she should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. How bloody unconcerned can you get?
Her name should be published far and wide. Other people are at risk of catching it and transmitting it before they know they have it.
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