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Lethal TB Quarantine: Is the U.S. at Risk? - Newsweek Health - MSNBC.com

So another random human, infected with a drug-resistant version of TB, took a transcontinental trip and possibly infected everyone on both flights he was on. Is it just me, or do people just not care about other people's safety at all?

And before someone says something like "he probably didnt know he had it" pay attention to this statement in the article. :-)

TB is communicated by coughing out infectious material from broken-down lung tissue, ...
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Well, he left the country the first time to go this wedding and as any man knows, if he missed that, he'd be dead anyway, so I guess he took a calculated risk.

Secondly, it appears he came back since he didn't want to get treatment in a foreign country. Again, completely understand...
 
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According to a buddy at the CDC this guy isn't nearly the innocent traveler he's claimed.

He refused to cooperate with authorities. When he was ordered to stop flying he diverted to Canada so he could enter the US by a different route & avoid detection.

Word is his side of the story is mostly BS.
 
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I was wondering yesterday- if this guy knowingly had TB and infected someone on the plane, could he be charged with something? Reckless endangerment? Assault? I'm sure there's a lawyer somewhere who would gladly help to sue the guy as well.
 
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RugbyBuck;854249; said:
I hope the fucker dies. He apparently took short flights while in Europe, too, with knowledge that he had it and that it was contagious.
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But did they say, "Simon says your deadly lung tissue will kill other innocent passengers if you travel?"

He may have a defense.



"If the lung gunk stays dry - yo' ass can fly!"

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Follow Up

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A tuberculosis patient who turned fugitive to continue with wedding and honeymoon plans despite warnings not to travel apologized to the fellow airline passengers he may have endangered.
"I'm very sorry for any grief or pain that I have caused anyone," Andrew Speaker, a 31-year-old Atlanta lawyer, said in an interview on ABC's "Good Morning America" aired on Friday.
"I just hope they can forgive me and understand that I really believed that I wasn't putting people at risk."
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Fugitive TB patient apologizes to passengers | U.S. | Reuters






He claims he was never told he COULDN'T fly, only that he SHOULDN'T.
 
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US border patrol at their finest...


Even though U.S. officials had put Speaker on a warning list, he caught a flight to Montreal and then drove across the U.S. border on May 24 at Champlain, N.Y. A border inspector who checked him disregarded a computer warning to stop Speaker, officials said Thursday.

The unidentified inspector later said the infected man seemed perfectly healthy and that he thought the warning was merely ?discretionary,? officials briefed on the case told The Associated Press. They spoke on condition of anonymity because the matter is still under investigation.

The inspector ran Speaker?s passport through a computer, and a warning ? including instructions to hold the traveler, don a protective mask in dealing with him, and telephone health authorities ? popped up, officials said. About a minute later, Speaker was instead cleared to continue on his journey, according to officials familiar with the records. The inspector has since been removed from border duty.
 
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