did this "TB Scare" actually scare anyone here

[LSK]

Poll question: did this "TB Scare" actually scare anyone here

Are their scare tactics working on anyone here?

[napi21]

1. I honestly thing the media is making much more out of this than is necessary.

I say that because the bride's father doesn't seem to think their marriage has sentenced his daughter to death. I guess if this guy had been displaying symptoms like coughing it would have been much worse, but right now, I really don't think there was much of a risk.

[fortyfeetunder]

2. I haven't been on a plane in the last month, no biggie

Except for the obvious distress about his riding and social intercourse, this TB Boy story sounds like a distraction...what is REALLY happening around here?

[OwnedByFerrets]

3. The biggest bowl of hogwash ever.

Im sure this man has been in contact with thousands of ppl in the past two weeks. Are we going to quarantine all of them????? Sheesh.

[caligirl]

4. I suspected gerberding wasn't being as candid as she should have been. I figured

she was leaving some facts out and she was. I was exposed to TB via a patient I had whose doctor waltzed in to my unit and announced he really should have had her, the patient, tested for tb(she was coughing alot). she had TB. Everyone in the OR and Recovery Room was exposed. I converted at my next screening about 1-2 months later.

I do however empathize with those he exposed.

[southerncrone]

5. Actually

one of my good friend's son is dating the liason to the CDC stationed at a very highly regareded teaching hospital. She told them that the CDC believes that these virulent new strains of TB are the worst fear we have in the US. It has not been highly publicized for fear of panic, but CDC has been very concerned about TB for a number of years now. I was surprised when she told me this, since I really hadn't hear ANYTHING about TB until this case.

Could illegal aliens be bringing it in? I thought that was one of the test legal immigrants were tested for b/4 legal status was granted. Just wondering. :shrug:

[LisaL]

7. People travel everywhere now days.

Mr. Speaker himself traveled to Asia, and that's where he could have gotten it.
You don't have to be an illegal alien to travel somewhere and then to bring it back to US.

[nealmhughes]

6. No, because a Nepalese national grad student in Alabama died from it a few weeks ago.

And 5 Nepalis were found with the same strain at my alma mater, after I had just spent a whole afternoon in the library and was right beside a Nepali lad for several hours, he was most charming and we chatted and I showed him a database function he didn't know well. . .
Now why would I be surprised to learn someone one state away had the same disease, and a city that was most probably their port of entry, Atlanta, plus I have read about this stuff before?

[southerncrone]

8. Was that publicized widely outside of Alabama?

Granted I don't hear all the news, but I must have missed that if it was.

[nealmhughes]

14. I never heard it on CNN. But it was in all the local media market, the Huntsville AL market

which covers part of Tenn and Miss as well. I did post some of the information here when it was current.

Why would it be news if an international flight and CDC warnings weren't involved and a wealthy lawyer in Atlanta? It was "only" kids from Nepal and everyone from Nashville to Birmingham potentially exposed. . .

Sorry for the sarcasm, but it should have been a major story in my opinion. The poor boy died, but luckily he wasn't on campus much and did not have a TA or other job, so hopefully, he was not a contagious carrier. I really feel sorry for the four who were sent back to Nepal and unable to finish their degrees.

[CC]

9. No not really. The government

reaction scares me more, and *'s governments ineptitude is showing again as usual.

[CoffeeCat]

10. I'll tell you this much...

I tend to worry more about things that happen in this country--because we have
an infantile, delusional monkeyclown at the helm.

When I hear about hurricanes, tornadoes, hurricanes or a potential outbreak
of some disease--I do get more concerned that I normally would--because generally
monkeyclowns aren't that skilled at handling national problems.

This inept administration will "Katrina" any national emergency
that arises. In addition, Junior will attempt to don his little dictator
boots and cape--at the mere suggestion that people are helpless and in
need of help from the Federal Government. He's just waiting in the wings for
his chance to show the world that he's a big boy who can rule the world!


Given all of this---I admittedly do become more concerned about events
such as this. They're probably harmless, in the long run. However,
it's easy to worry about how things will be handled, when we've got such
a screw up steering the ship.

[Contrary1]

11. I voted "other"...

just because no one else had. Yep, that's the only reason.

Hence the nickname.

[Mandate My Ass]

12. I remember reading a story about a very sick woman during the Clinton

administration who had flown on two or more flights from either Vietnam or the Phillipines to the US with a very virulent strain of antibiotic resistant TB. She basically died hours after disembarking the plane. She was much sicker than the man who recently flew. And guess what?

The main thrust of the story was about how airplanes recycle air and endanger passengers and what they need to do to improve this potentially dangerous situation which is only going to become more and more common in the years ahead. It had nothing to do with scaring the flying populace into allowing the US government to illegally detain people who have committed no crime.

[THUNDER HANDS]

13. for a few hours I was terrified

They said he visited a NY hospital in early May.

I visited a NY hosptial in early May.

Then they said he visited Bellevue Hospital in early May.

I visited Bellevue Hospital in early May.

But I was relieved to find out that I missed him by four days.

So, yeah, I was scared for a while.

[pitohui]

15. i was in contact w. someone exposed on the one of the flights

scared might be the wrong word, try angry

TB boy needs to go away for a long, long time, and he also needs to compensate all of his victims for their tests, treatment, fear & suffering

if you don't think it's terrifying to be exposed to an incurable disease i wish you could switch places w. some of the folks on these flights

it's pretty cheap to be casual about someone else's danger

[nadinbrzezinski]

18. I've transporetd patients with TB

so I think I undesrtand the risks

but in this case, the feds should pick up on all costs for the tests, partly as a failure from DHS, and partly as a public health meassure

Chances are your friend will be fine... not 100% but most likely he'll be fine

[havocmom]

16. Bigger risk than one man riding on planes: Millions without health care

Too many people, working poor, even many in the faltering 'middle class' who have to keep going to work/school/errands while sick. All the millions who cannot afford health care, just plodding along without any screening or treatment for things which they may be infected with, in all likelihood including serious diseases like TB and Type C Hepatitis.

THAT scares me. The health care crisis in America is beginning to make me think the GOP does have a solution to the Social Security boom and it ain't pretty x(

[nadinbrzezinski]

17. The only way I would have been concerned is

if I was in the same plane as this man...upwards of three rows