do you know anyone who got a CDC letter?

[fred41]

If I ever get quarantined for incurable gonorrhea I hope I at least get a T-shirt out of it.

[Dino Velvet]

Cool,,,


There was a guy named Dino in the room next to mine, but he just kept singing something about a "moon in the sky like a big pizza pie"

I was down the hall to the left whistling this. The administrators were never curious enough about the lyrics ignoring the fact that it was my confession.

[scroller]

Total bullshit thread. Neither linked article by the OP has the word "quarantine" in them, anywhere. OP has absolutely no idea what she's talking about. Empty fear-mongering.

[tsbrenda]

Air Traveler With Drug-Resistant TB Quarantined


http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...oryId=10538667

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has quarantined an air passenger with a severe form of tuberculosis and is notifying people who sat near him on two international flights to get tested for the disease.
It is the first time since 1963, that the CDC has issued an order for a patient to be quarantined. Usually, such decisions are left to the states, but this case involved international and interstate travel, so the federal government stepped in.
The CDC is concerned about passengers seated in rows near the infected man on a May 13, Atlanta to Paris, Air France 385 flight and another Czech Air 0104 from Prague to Canada on May 23.
"We are focusing in on these two air lines because they are long trips, because our science indicates these are the kinds of trips that could pose a risk of transmission," said CDC Director Dr. Julie Gerberding.
The type of tuberculosis, known a XDR TB, is rare, and because it is drug resistant it is very difficult to treat. Gerberding said the agency decided to err on the side of caution to avoid any potential exposure.
"The medical evidence would suggest the potential for transmission would be on the low side. But we know it isn't zero," she said.
"We are considering not only his own ability to transmit but also the seriousness of this organism and the chance some passenger could be at a special risk on the basis of their own personal medical history," Gerberding said.
XDR TB does not respond to treatment with the usual first- or second-line tuberculosis drugs, so treatments take longer and are more costly. One case last year cost as much as a half million dollars to treat.
There have only been a few cases of people acquiring highly infectious diseases on long flights. Dr. Henry Masur, president of the Infectious Disease Society says exposure – even at close proximity — doesn't usually result in infection.
"You may breathe in the organism, but most people will not get that organism into their body to cause infection," he said.
A skin test shows whether a person is harboring the disease, which can remain latent for years. When a regular case of TB is diagnosed, it only takes one drug to treat it. If there's a reason to suspect the person has XDR TB, the treatment is not as simple.
"Generally you would pick several drugs that were active against the organism, but there's very little experience to know how many drugs or for how long you would have to treat the patient," Masur said.
And if the strain is not known, Masur said it becomes a kind of trial and error to find the right drugs.
Part of what makes XDR difficult to treat is the time it takes to identify the strain. The patient in this case knew he had TB and had been advised not to travel. But he had already left the U.S. before it was discovered that he had the XDR TB strain.
Dr. Martin Cetron of the CDC's Global migration and Quarantine Division said the man ignored CDC orders against traveling and got on a flight to Canada, and then drove into the United States.
"I spoke to him personally and requested his compliance to go to the isolation facility in New York City to be evaluated," Cetron said. "He voluntarily drove himself there, he was given instructions on how to do that safely and without putting the public health at risk."
He was then taken by CDC plane to Atlanta, where he was transferred and placed in quarantine.
The federal government has quarantined someone for the first time in nearly 50 years after a man with a drug-resistant form of tuberculosis — called XDR TB — traveled by airplane.
The man, who has not been identified, took two commercial flights to Europe and back to Canada, possibly exposing other passengers. Federal officials are now searching for those passengers and crew members so they can be tested. The man is being held in a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention facility in Atlanta.
Dr. Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, talks with Day To Day's Madeleine Brand.
This man was advised not to travel and did. Why?
You're dealing with human behavior. We know that, dating back to the earliest of times, there are people who, for selfish reasons, for unclear purposes, will in fact do whatever they please. In this case, this is where public health has to battle the issue of individual rights and privacy with that of the greater health good. This was a collision that was bound to happen sometime and will happen more often in the future.
Shouldn't there be more stringent rules preventing them from doing whatever they please?
This individual had been compliant with public health action. It was only with the advent of his wedding in Europe that he decided that he wasn't going to be. There was actually an order issued before he left the United States, but [public health officials] were unable to serve it on him. This just points out that you have to have extreme measures for the very, very small number of people who just won't be compliant.

Extreme measures being what?
Putting someone in a legal hold. Actually, today the terminology is a bit confusing. While what we're really talking about is holding this individual under what is called quarantine laws, it is really "isolation," where you're holding someone against their will so that they don't transmit the disease to others.

"Quarantine" is the process where we find people who may have been exposed to someone and put them under some kind of watchful eye, or in some cases actually hold them until the time period has passed in which they would have become infected.
So, technically speaking, this is really isolation. But either way you look at it, it is holding people against their will so that they will not continue to transmit to others.
Should this guy be sanctioned in some way?
What we need to do is really understand it better. What could we have done to have supported this individual in not continuing to travel?
So maybe the CDC should have sent a plane?
In the future, we're going to have more of these situations, and one of the ways we're going to help people be compliant — and this is in the public's best interest to do this — is ask ourselves what can we do to assure someone that if they are in a far distant land and have an urgent need to get home for health care, that we in fact support them in doing the right thing. That may sound like we're really taking care of them. In a sense, we're protecting the public.


http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...oryId=10538667

[tsbrenda]

2nd traveler quarantined on return from Mexico

A 47-year-old man who returned from Mexico yesterday complaining of fever, headache and a sore throat was admitted to Meir Hospital in Kfar Sava, where he was placed in quarantine and is being tested for swine flu. His condition was described as "good." He was the second Israeli to be placed in quarantine over fears of an outbreak of the disease. A 26-year-old man was quarantined at Netanya's Laniado Hospital after returning from Mexico on Friday with similar mild flu-like symptoms.

The patient at Meir Hospital is being treated with Tamiflu (Oseltamivir phosphate), recommended by the Health Ministry for treatment of influenza. "Under normal circumstances this patient would certainly not have been hospitalized," Dr. Michal Chowers, head of the hospital's infectious disease unit, said. "His hospitalization is part of the Health Ministry's efforts to locate any initial cases of swine flu in Israel. We sent blood samples from the patient to a Health Ministry laboratory; results are expected in three to four days. The patient himself does not appear to be worried. I saw him and told him the whole ruckus around him does not in any way mean that he is seriously ill."

The Health Ministry yesterday said it embraced the recommendation of the European Commission to postpone nonessential travel to Mexico and recommends that travelers be alert to reports regarding other countries. In a press conference yesterday ministry officials said that no swine flu cases have yet been recorded in Israel. They said they were not issuing any special instructions to the public for now, including individuals returning from Mexico. The ministry did recommend that such travelers seek medical assistance if they develop flu-like symptoms within seven days after their return. These individuals would be quarantined at local hospitals until their condition is determined, like the patients at Laniado and Meir hospitals.
The Israel Airports Authority said yesterday it had not received instructions from the Health Ministry on how to deal with incoming passengers presenting with flu-like symptoms. In a statement to Haaretz, the authority said "We are prepared for any epidemic scenario but are awaiting directives from the Ministry of Health."
Deputy Health Minister Yaaakov Litzman (United Torah Judaism) said that Israel has sufficient stocks of Tamiflu to treat 18% of the population. The ministry said yesterday it was in the process of increasing that figure to 25%, in accordance with World Health Organization directives.
Representatives for local and foreign airlines operating to and from Israel said they are not making any special preparations to deal with the disease and that there have been not been significant numbers of cancelations of flight reservations to Mexico. However, Delta Airlines, which operates connecting flights to Mexico, said that any passengers booked to travel to Mexico up to and including May 4 may change their reservations without additional charge.
According to officials in the travel industry, only a few thousand Israelis visit Mexico each year. There are no direct flights between the two countries, so most travelers take connecting flights via Europe, the United States or bordering countries. The comparatively high price of such flights, coupled with the economic crisis, has reduced the number of travelers between the two countries even further.
Minister gives virus kosher name
Litzman yesterday avoided using the common name for the disease, since pigs are not kosher. Speaking at the press conference announcing preparations for a possible swine flu epidemic, the deputy health minister said the Health Ministry was "at the spearhead of the effort to block the Mexican flu from spreading into Israel." The ultra-Orthodox daily Hamevaser similarly avoided the use of the term "swine flu". The Lithuanian Haredi daily Yated Ne'eman used swine flu in its reportage, but not in headlines. Ultra-Orthodox publications normally avoid using the words "pig" or "swine", preferring to call the animal or its meat "the other thing."

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition...exico-1.274962

[Dino Velvet]

Hey Brenda, did you find that place over on Alvarado that you were asking about last week?

[Quiet Reflections]

these are still old stories, I'm still not seeing how its different than any other scare tactic

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Stories on this page: One U.S. person quarantined in 2007. One person in Israel in 2009. Fucking ridiculous.

[tsnajwa]

some get prosecuted for knowing spreading incurable and deadly STD'S.

some are found to be mentally ill

omg.. that just made me sick in my stomach :/

[Helvis2012]

Gnarly....