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  STONERS

  May 31, 2007, 2:05 p.m.

  "We always think of planes as a vehicle for spreading disease"

  There have been several prominent disease-on-a-plane incidents in recent years.

  Perhaps best known is severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, which erupted in Asia in 2003. Over three months, CDC workers delayed on the tarmac 12,000 airplanes carrying 3 million passengers arriving from SARS-affected countries, isolating people with SARS symptoms.

  Last year, CDC officials worked with airlines and state health departments to track two infected airline passengers who may have helped spread a mumps epidemic throughout the Midwest.
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  BronxBomber

  May 31, 2007, 2:25 p.m.

  It's interesting to note that the airline in question won't release details as to where that person stricken with TB was sitting. Watsupwitdat???!!!
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  natashas

  May 31, 2007, 3:13 p.m.

  I was planning to fly for my vacation this summer. After reading this I am dead set against it.
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  jordan11

  May 31, 2007, 4:49 p.m.

  Here's some irony. The man is an attorney, who represents people wrongfully harmed. HIs father works for the CDC, specializing in the communicative disease 'tuberculosis.' (Heard it on the radio, AP news.)
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  OldRusty

  May 31, 2007, 10:45 p.m.

  This typical behavior of a lawyer, disreguard for every-one else, so lets remember this.
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  ETproductions

  June 1, 2007, 12:39 a.m.

  You want something scary? Wait for ebola on a plane. That would make Snakes on a Plane look like a picnic in the park.
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  tkyrchncs

  June 1, 2007, 6:45 a.m.

  You are hundreds of times more likely to get an infection from the soil in your own yard. This guy hasn't even infected his wife. People get upset about the most trivial things. If you want to do something about contagion then forget "no fly lists" and work on your own immune system.
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  evelyna

  June 1, 2007, 9:57 a.m.

  It is funny they will check everyone's id and hold up some baby at the gate that does not have proper paperwork.

  People should be required to carry medical status papers also. That would cut down on a lot of disease coming into the country. We could let it go out though.

  India deserves it because I know people who went and they did not even recommend a chlorea vacination.
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  ontherock

  June 1, 2007, 11:37 a.m.

  I think everyone was in a panic and someone heard he had TB and the CDC went on code red or whatever to cover all the bases.

  The guy hasn't infected hes wife or step daughter so here is probably a slim chance it spread on the plans. However if he had just worn a mask and said he had a compromised immune system or something he would have been just a geek on a plane with a mask. I have mixed feelings. Glad my family wasn't on the plane with him!!!

  No one has said where he got TB?????
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  normallysilent

  June 1, 2007, 1:48 p.m.

  I believe the type he has is only suposed to have a 30% recovery rate. He is lucky because his was caught very early. Anyone which downplays what he did just because they say he hasnt even infected his wife yet is a idiot.

  this guy is an arrogant ass which has shown total disregard for anyone else's safety
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  abntv

  June 1, 2007, 2:02 p.m.

  I think the bigger question here is how did he manage to get out of Georgia and onto and international flight in the first place..by all accounts he should have been under quarantine.. Georgia and the CDC dropped the ball on this one..The fact is there are several different strains of TB some that come out of Russia have no cure..Ask yourself another question...how and where did this guy get the infection?

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