Tuberculosis Man - What should they do to this guy?

Madcrawdad

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Here's a link to a story about the guy with tuberculosis who ignored the Center for Disease Control's warning, and took a couple of long flights anyway. Although his strain of TB doesn't seem to be highly infectious, it looks to be quite resistant to drugs. Because of his decision to fly against CDC orders, there's now a global search for folks who may have been exposed to the guy on the planes.... The guy can't claim ignorance either, as he went so far as to fly into Canada on his return flight and drive into the U.S, to avoid being denied entrance to the U.S at the airport.

http://www.wkrn.com/nashville/news/ap-groom-with-tb-under-federal-quarantine/98428.htm

What do you think they should do with this guy? :nutkick:
 
there's been cases now in a few jurisdictions (America, UK, Australia, South Africa that I can think of) where persons with infectious diseases who intentionally or recklessly endanger another person by exposing to risk of infection have been successfully prosecuted.

I won't go into the awful details but one can imagine the kind of diseases and mode of transmission which I'm talking about.

Can't see any reason not to prosecute that guy, subject to medical opinion on how real the risk of infection was.
 
oh my, I think he needs to go to jail fro a while, mabe 5 years! he put countless americans and foreingers at risk, he needs to go up the river!!
 
I think jail is enough for this guy. He knew when he left Europe that he had a highly resistant strain, but it sounds like he was just scared (i would be too) and didn't have any consideration for the people on the flights. He put alot of people in danger and if any of them were to be positive for TB, then they could sue him. IMO that and jailtime would be sufficient....and/or a fine. ;)
 
Jail time and restitution for anyone that contracts TB from him. Airplanes recycle air. As smart as he plays himself to be he should have know that. Being a personal injury lawyer, he also should have known that when a Dr. says to not travel, is queried if it's just to cover the doctors liability, and the Dr. responds affirmativly, that he should not have gone. Let's just say he wasn't the guy with TB. I was. If I got someone else infected with TB, and they retained this idiot, he'd be all over me for traveling, and the Dr. for not making it clear that I should not had traveled. This is the type of lawyer that gives lawyers bad names, only thinking of himself, and not what's right.
 
he should get at least a year in prison, longer (if not life) if another passenger or someone he has come in contact with develops TB. This guy has to know better, his new father-in-law is a researcher at a TB drug lab. And he was a personal injury lawyer, one more reason to hate him.
 
the crazy thing about the story, according to today's paper, is that the groom's new father-in-law works for the CDC, specifically with the Tuberculosis bug..... some think it was the father-in-law who turned the guy into the CDC. The scientist father-in-law insists that he has never had TB the entire 30 years he's worked with the stuff, and the CDC insists the groom didn't get sick from any of their TB bugs.

Very coincidental, don't you think? Maybe the scientist didn't want the guy marrying his daughter and thought he'd dose him with a drug-resistant strain of TB..... :evil_lol:
 
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