Re: XDR-TB
From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com)
Thu May 31 21:07:26 2007
Wait ... this story just keeps getting better and better ...
A globe-trotting Atlanta lawyer with a dangerous strain of tuberculosis
was allowed back into the U.S. by a border inspector who disregarded a
computer warning to stop him and don protective gear, officials said
Thursday. The inspector has been removed from border duty.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070531/D8PFL1P00.html
OK ... so a border inspector finds a man on a Health Watch List, and
then simply disregards it. Sheesh ... To think the US disbanded the
USPHS.
Art
At Thu, 31 May 2007, art fougner, md wrote:
>
>..had been ordered by American authorities not to board a commercial
>transatlantic flight. But he slipped back into North America by flying
>through Montreal on May 24...
>
>"I think that's a question that only he can answer," Dr. Martin Cetron,
>director of global migration and quarantine for the U.S. Centers of
>Disease Control in Atlanta said when asked if the man flew to Canada to
>evade a U.S. no-fly order.
>
>"But we informed him how important it was for him not to take commercial
>flights, how important it was to stay put, what the options were for
>getting immediate assistance in Italy," Dr. Cetron told The Canadian
>Press in an interview.
>
>The CDC even dispatched a doctor — a former CDC TB division staffer who
>now works for Italy's Ministry of Health — to meet with the man to
>discuss how he could be safely returned to the United States.
>
>"When the ... ex-CDC physician went to meet with him and try to provide
>some reassurance — because we recognize it's a scary diagnosis — he had
>already left. Checked out of the hotel," Dr. Cetron said.
>
>http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070529.wtraveltuber0529/BNStory/National/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20070529.wtraveltuber0529
>
>Art
>
>At Thu, 31 May 2007, DoctorJoe@aol.com wrote:
>>
>>In a message dated 5/31/07 5:08:55 PM, henrygregor@yahoo.com writes:
>>
>>> As the fat man himself used to say, "How sweet it is!"
>>>
>>Hey, don't gloat.
>>
>>The scenario is this: The guy is a plaintiff's attorney married to a law
>>student. However, his father-in-law is a doc at CDC in the TB section. So I wonder
>>where the TB might have come, don't you? And it might be a case of "I don't
>>want this jerk-weed marrying/influencing my precious daughter."
>>
>>So before all the EVIDENCE is in (don't you watch CSI???), don't pick the bad
>>guy. EVERYONE is a suspect, don't ya know? The truth will set you free.
>>
>>Joe P.
>>
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>art fougner, md
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art fougner, md
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