- Hello Jeff -- The incident of exposing fellow airline
passengers to this highly fatal, transmissible disease happened earlier
this month. Those passengers could have been spreading XDR TB exponentially
since getting off the flight. There are a lot of questions about
this case that are NOT being answered. Such as: how did the CDC find out
about the index case?
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- Frankly, we may now have a pandemic to worry about and
this one has NO cure. XDR TB sets us back to 1920s, 30s and 40s, when
TB was a death sentence.
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- Remember that ALL of the 53 patients in the South African
XDR TB study have died. That's 53 out of 53...a 100% kill rate.
All died within a year. This is an extremely virulent form of TB, as we
know.
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- Hopefully, more information will be forthcoming. I hope
the mainstream media will cover this case. The genie is out of the bottle
now.
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- Patty
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- Here's a rundown of the current stories on this extremely
dangerous and concerning situation:
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- CDC Issues Quarantine Order, Seeks Passengers In Drug-Resistant
TB Scare
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- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is searching
for people who may have been exposed to an airline passenger with a virulent
form of tuberculosis.
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- Dr. Julie Gerberding, head of the CDC, says the person
traveled on Air France flight 385 (Atlanta to Paris) on May 12 and Czech
Air flight 0104 (Prague to Montreal) on May 24. He entered the United States
by car, according to Gerberding.
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- "We have no suspicion that this patient was highly
infectious, in fact the medical evidence would suggest that his potential
for transmission would be on the low side, but we know it isn't zero,"
Gerberding says.
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- She says a federal quarantine order has been issued and
the man is receiving medical treatment. The crew and passengers who sat
within two rows of the man should be tested as a precaution, she says.
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- Gerberding says the man was aware of his diagnosis at
the time of the flights, but may not have known that he had a drug-resistant
form the disease that is very difficult to treat.
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- Here's the WHO page devoted to XDR-TB. Here's the list
of communicable diseases that are covered by the federal regulations and
an overview of the USA's quarantine laws.
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- Posted by Mike Carney at 02:30 PM/ET, May 29, 2007 in
Health/Science
- http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/05/cdc_issues_quar.html
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- Feds Quarantine Man With XDR TB
- News Update From Citizens For Legitimate Government
- 5-29-7
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- U.S. Government Issues a Quarantine Order --CDC Order
is First Since 1963 29 May 2007 A man with a rare and exceptionally dangerous
form of tuberculosis has been placed in quarantine by the U.S. government
after possibly exposing passengers and crew on two trans-Atlantic flights
earlier this month, health officials said Tuesday. This marks the first
time since 1963 that the government issued a quarantine order. The last
such order was to quarantine a patient with smallpox, according to the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. [See also: Flu 'Oddities']
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- US authorities quarantine air traveler with
TB
- 29 May 2007 18:52:35 GMT
- Source: Reuters
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- WASHINGTON, May 29 (Reuters) - U.S. federal health officials
have placed under quarantine a man who may have exposed fellow passengers
to a particularly nasty strain of tuberculosis on two transatlantic flights,
authorities said on Tuesday.
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- Dr. Julie Gerberding, director of the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, said authorities are seeking to notify passengers
who traveled aboard Air France 385 from Atlanta to Paris on May 13 and
back to the United States on Czech Air Flight 0104 on May 24.
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- She said people at CDC do not recall a similar action
since 1963.
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- "This is an unusual TB organism, one that's very,
very difficult to treat. And we want to make sure that we have done everything
we possibly can to identify people who could be at risk," Gerberding
said.
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- Tuberculosis is a bacterial infection that usually attacks
the lungs.
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- US Authorities Quarantine Air Traveler With
TB
- 5-29-7
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- WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- U.S. federal health officials
have placed under quarantine a man who may have exposed fellow passengers
to a particularly nasty strain of tuberculosis on two transatlantic flights,
authorities said on Tuesday.
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- Dr. Julie Gerberding, director of the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, said authorities are seeking to notify passengers
who traveled aboard Air France 385 from Atlanta to Paris on May 13 and
back to the United States on Czech Air Flight 0104 on May 24.
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- She said people at CDC do not recall a similar action
since 1963.
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- "This is an unusual TB organism, one that's very,
very difficult to treat. And we want to make sure that we have done everything
we possibly can to identify people who could be at risk," Gerberding
said.
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- Tuberculosis is a bacterial infection that usually attacks
the lungs.
- Patricia A. Doyle DVM, PhD
- Bus Admin, Tropical Agricultural Economics
- Univ of West Indies
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- Please visit my "Emerging Diseases" message
board at:
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- Zhan le Devlesa tai sastimasa
- Go with God and in Good Health
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