Whopee. Some people get to sue the airline, and I hope they sue their pants off. We are entitled to know who this infectious creature is, where he lives, and who else might have been in contact with him.
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
Now a Fox News Alert.
If it was in the article, I missed it. Is the guy American? He’s in the hospital in the US, but his travel originated in Atlanta, he flew to Paris, ended up in Praque and flew back to Montreal, then drove to the US. Sort of a strange travel pattern.
Are any cities closed due to Black Plague?
They are only taking flights that other Americans refuse to take.
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 ?
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.
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 don't know why that makes me chuckle. I guess at this point I'm looking for anything that will make me laugh.
Not to hijack the thread, but...
What a peculiar itinerary. Leave from Atlanta, return to Montreal and drive back to Atlanta? Why not just fly back into Atlanta?
Was there some reason this person could not fly directly back to the United States?
Thanks for the article, Pyro.
To all of you tinfoil-hat-wearing kookburgers, just shove off.
Chances are this is just some poor guy (a fellow American citizen) who was just doing business, had a piece of awful luck, and is possibly going to die a horrible death from it.
Don’t shame us with a lot of pointless babble about evil plot and Mexicans.
“I’m an infectious American.”
10 to 1 the guy was an illegal alien.
“The infected patient traveled on two trans-Atlantic air flights and in doing so, may have exposed passengers and crew to the infection.”
no kidding. and what about all the people who were exposed to this man BEFORE he left to fly to Paris...for the 12 days between Paris and Prague, and from Canada until he arrived in Atlanta?
They are quaranteening the passengers from the two flights he was on, but what about the other connecting flights and those who came in contact with at the ticket counters, boarding areas etc? The possible vectors could be exponential.
Maybe I missed it, but last I checked, Montreal is not in the United States.
He departed Atlanta? And returned to Montreal? Could be a logical reason for this, but most that leave, generally return to their point of departure.
Homosexuality plus illegal immigration is a deadly combination.