It’s interesting to read about this guy flying around with drug-resistant TB.
The CDC and the passenger both deserve criticism for their actions and inactions.
The CDC seems totally unprepared for this situation, despite decades of airline travel. The passsenger should have been supplied with written information about his disease, and a private jet back to the States for quarantine after diagnosis.
Left to his own devices, he made his way back to the USA, exposing thousands of people, instead of an uncertain quarantine in a foreign country.
Not exactly heroic, but better than the Toronto man who went back to work at the office after being diagnosed with SARS, despite being told to stay confined to his house.
TB is rampant in the Asian community. If you live in a large city, at least one hospital in your area has a TB wing with isolated ventilation. And TB nurses make house calls to medicate the infected. Yet most people know little about the disease.
cnn.com: Man knew he had TB before flying to Europe
cnn.com: Search intensifies for people at TB risk
cnn.com: Border security scrutinized after TB patient slips in
cnn.com: TB patient says he was lured into isolation
