Every so often I wonder if people aren't taken over by, say, the spirit of Pestilence, and driven to do things like take drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis through FIVE COUNTRIES.
That's what I first thought when I saw the news. Sucks for him, being under lock and key and all, but it would have been nice if he'd listened to his doctor's "recommendations."
Seriously. Especially considering that his new father-in-law WORKS FOR THE CDC (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070531/ap_on_re_us/tuberculosis_infection), SPECIALIZING IN TUBERCULOSIS!.
Atlanta reporting (home of CDC and of the infected party)
i immediately connected this to "12 Monkeys" (produced in 1995, mind you, and don't give me that BS about life imitating art) and websearched XDR-TB and "12 Monkeys" to see who else made the obvious connection; quite a few it seems.
Speaker is a product of the Naval Academy, and the father-in-law is CDC specialist in TB. Is that a coincidence or what?!? SO we have the military and the government finding a nexus in this guy. Then he globetrots across Europe, hit a few gas stations or convenience stores in Canada and New York, maybe shook some hands.
TB is strictly airborne, right, or can it be passed in other ways?
from AOL news (not my favorite, but it's how i learned about this horror) Speaker's father-in-law has worked at the CDC for 32 years and is in the Division of Tuberculosis Elimination, where he works with TB and other organisms. He has co-authored papers on diabetes, TB and other infectious diseases.
and, i've read some speculation that some diseases have developed the capacity to influence *behavior* of the host in such ways to induce the host to spread the disease, but who knows?
Some bacteria are capable of controlling the functions of the host such that they will propagate the species. Certain wasp parasites, bacteria present in cat waste, etc.
And TB can be passed via saliva, as well, I believe.
yeah, toxoplasmosis...cats walking on the counter where food is prepared. mine don't do that anymore. i give them colloidal silver baths every couple months.
onto the buisness. i've seen reports that this is the first exercise of the quarantine law in 44 years or so. HOWEVER, i've also seen reports of a man named Rober Daniels with the self-same pathogen locked in a special cage to prevent the spread of the disease.
so we're in this situation: national security laws will preempt the spread of accurate (read: truthful) information on the status of the patient and his infectiousness and health, or the virulence of the germ itself. in real talk, we can't trust what we're being told is true.
i wonder if this is the test...you know, the probe to see how fast and accurately the information spreads, how quickly the "good guys" are able to track down and test the other passengers on the flights Speaker took. with the Navy and CDC involved, who knows what the real aim of this super SNAFU may be.
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Date: 2007-05-30 09:21 pm (UTC)Strange.
Re: I wonder...
Date: 2007-05-31 04:17 am (UTC)Superflu!
Date: 2007-05-31 08:43 pm (UTC)Re: Superflu!
Date: 2007-05-31 08:52 pm (UTC)curious and curiouser
Date: 2007-06-01 02:18 am (UTC)i immediately connected this to "12 Monkeys" (produced in 1995, mind you, and don't give me that BS about life imitating art) and websearched XDR-TB and "12 Monkeys" to see who else made the obvious connection; quite a few it seems.
Speaker is a product of the Naval Academy, and the father-in-law is CDC specialist in TB. Is that a coincidence or what?!? SO we have the military and the government finding a nexus in this guy. Then he globetrots across Europe, hit a few gas stations or convenience stores in Canada and New York, maybe shook some hands.
TB is strictly airborne, right, or can it be passed in other ways?
from AOL news (not my favorite, but it's how i learned about this horror)
Speaker's father-in-law has worked at the CDC for 32 years and is in the Division of Tuberculosis Elimination, where he works with TB and other organisms. He has co-authored papers on diabetes, TB and other infectious diseases.
and, i've read some speculation that some diseases have developed the capacity to influence *behavior* of the host in such ways to induce the host to spread the disease, but who knows?
this is surreal.
Re: curious and curiouser
Date: 2007-06-01 02:49 am (UTC)And TB can be passed via saliva, as well, I believe.
Nice to meet you.
mucho gusto, Wolven (i'm neither spanish nor latin)
Date: 2007-06-01 03:09 am (UTC)onto the buisness. i've seen reports that this is the first exercise of the quarantine law in 44 years or so. HOWEVER, i've also seen reports of a man named Rober Daniels with the self-same pathogen locked in a special cage to prevent the spread of the disease.
don't believe me? googlize: "robert daniels" xdr-tb phoenix
so we're in this situation: national security laws will preempt the spread of accurate (read: truthful) information on the status of the patient and his infectiousness and health, or the virulence of the germ itself. in real talk, we can't trust what we're being told is true.
i wonder if this is the test...you know, the probe to see how fast and accurately the information spreads, how quickly the "good guys" are able to track down and test the other passengers on the flights Speaker took. with the Navy and CDC involved, who knows what the real aim of this super SNAFU may be.
Re: mucho gusto, Wolven (i'm neither spanish nor latin)
Date: 2007-06-01 06:35 pm (UTC)Re: mucho gusto, Wolven (i'm neither spanish nor latin)
Date: 2007-06-08 05:36 am (UTC)Re: mucho gusto, Wolven (i'm neither spanish nor latin)
Date: 2007-06-08 02:00 pm (UTC)