Posted on 05/29/2007 11:45:37 AM PDT by Pyro7480
The article title says he is an American.
Navy, you’re exactly right. Hepatitis 3 is the blame of illegals.
More germs ping!
Legal immigration process involves health screening.
But illegals can bring all sorts of diseases in with them. Recently a new, antibiotic-resistant pneumonia-like cold has shown up locally.
Our area gets heavy illegals influx.
Duh?
And now Bush and his fellow RINO’s and Dem’s insist on legalizing the 20+ million illegals we have now, and opening the flood gates to more?
They nuts? Or being paid off? (Bush and RINO’s). For Dems, the payoff is a flood of new Dem voters who will insure Dem control of the USA for perpetuity.
FYI
Okay, I’m not going to get paranoid before I read the actual CDC release, but this article’s vagueness is worrisome. Headline says “American”, though nothing in the article indicates the man’s country of citizenship, much less country of origin. More worrisome, the article refers to the man having a “rare and dangerous form of tuberculosis”, and then goes on to describe two different rare and dangerous forms of tuberculosis, with one being a lot rarer and more dangerous — but neglects to mention the pesky little detail of which form this man has!
And what’s with this guy’s weird and incompletely described travel route?
For now, I’ll assume this article’s vagueness is due to its having been written by a publik skool graduate. Off to see what the CDC site says . . .
CDC is in Atlanta. Was the infected man exposed with something we were in possession of ?
So that WE can pay for all their health care.
“Starting in the 1940s, scientists discovered the first of several medicines now used to treat TB. As a result, TB slowly began to decrease in the United States. But in the 1970s and early 1980s, the country let its guard down and TB control efforts were neglected. As a result, between 1985 and 1992, the number of TB cases increased. However, with increased funding and attention to the TB problem, we have had a steady decline in the number of persons with TB since 1992. But TB is still a problem; more than 14,000 cases were reported in 2003 in the United States.”
From CDC website. TB has never been eradicated in the US. It was treated successfully, which decreased the number of deaths. The number of cases has steadily decreased in the past 10 years, unlike the number of illegals that has greatly increased over the past 10 years. Illegals are not the cause of all TB infections.
Thanks, LOL, duh...guess it helps to read the title instead of just the article.
..let a woman board who was sick and throwing up...
..and seated her next to my husband...
..where she proceeded to throw up during the remainder of the trip.
I think we threw away his clothes when he got home, and he took a thorough shower.
Not contagious...thank goodness, but would you like that kind of trip?
On a TB-related note, from CA....
CDC press release: http://www.cdc.gov/od/oc/media/pressrel/2007/r070529.htm
He’s got the extra super dangerous form of TB.
He’s a US citizen (but no country of origin info).
Transcript of briefing (presumably including Q&A session) should be on the CDC website soon.
Hepatitis 3? Never heard of that. Viral hepatitis cases are caused by 5 different viruses, labeled A-E. Do you mean Hep. A?
Is there a new star on the flag I don't know about?
(Does anyone in the media ever pay attention to what they write anymore if it's not America-bashing?)
Also, it would be nice to know what this guy was doing in Atlanta before the flight. Exposing a couple hundred people on a plane is bad, but not as bad as exposing millions in a major metropolitan area.
I remember that when I was in high school, every year we had to go to the nurse’s office and get stuck with a pin. They then watched the site for I don’t remember how many days to see if it turned red, an indication of TB. We had several girls who got the red reaction, but didn’t actually have TB. They were told that they had been exposed. I never really understood what was going on, but I don’t think they test school kids for TB any more. Perhaps with these new developments, that test ought to be re-instated.
I don’t know why the gooberment is having such a fit over this. They let thousands of illegals cross the border each year with TB and other nasty diseases such as cholera, diphtheria, plague, leprosy, malaria, and viral hemorrhagic fevers
You nailed it.
In the case in point the passenger had a serious communicable disease but it may well be that the airline had no way of knowing.If the airline *didn't* know I don't see how the airline can be held responsible.
No, I was thinking I heard Hep. C was first-case diagnosed in a person illegally here from a country south of us, but I can’t find the link...I’d better rescind the statement, sorry.
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