TB man

Anyone have an comments on the TB man? I think that's the way a superbug will finally get us all. Some fool saying "but I feel fine," and everyone at the borders saying "but he looks fine."

I seen an interview with him this morning. I feel for everyone involved. What amazed me is that his father in law works at the CDC with TB to top it all. Cannot help but wonder if that may be how he got it. They say he could be in quarintine for over a year or longer.

I feel bad that he is sick, but I also think he is lying. He keeps saying "no one told me I was a health risk to anyone else," yet his wife tearfully said she hadn't kissed her husband in 6 weeks. Why not, if he thought he was fine? Also, TB in general is very contagious. He knew he was putting people at risk for "ordinary" TB by traveling even before he knew it was the super strain.

Well, I'm wondering who's going to get sued first - the guy who got on the plane knowing he had TB, or the plane for allowing him to get on it. It seems that if you have TB at all, you're quarantined for a while until you're no longer contagious. So, why was he out walking around in the first place?

I wondered about that too... Was the father-in-law pulling some strings? This is just so convoluted, with odd coincidences.

Yes I would agree that there is some coincidences with the father in law. You can bet that someone will get sued. I can see both the man with TB getting sued along with the airline that let him fly. Has anyone heard yet if anyone on the plane has it? I am not sure how long it takes for the results to come back from the tests.

Man...in high school we had this kid come in just one day, then all of a sudden we all had to get tested for TB because he was a suspected carrier. It was pretty scary.

Did your school require skin tests for incoming students? I had to take one every time I changed schools. They are hideous -- I'd much rather have blood work/injections than those nasty tine tests.

I had heard that some colleges were now making people test for TB. I don't remember ever having to have this test in highschool? Maybe I just don't remember but I would think I would though.

I had to take one anytime I moved into a new school system, not just up from middle to high school, for instance. Also, when I worked at a hospital I had to take one every year.

I did know that if you worked in the hospital that you had to get one. Just never realized when you switched schools it was required?

It might have just been the systems I was moving to/from. I didn't mean to say that it was a universal policy.

The conspiracy theorist in me is convinced that this story is bigger than it looks. There are too many coincidences in terms of the father in law encouraging him to travel AND being a researcher in resistant strains of TB.