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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / AIDS / June 2007but not hiv or aids, go figure
Media Advisory FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, May 29, 2007 Contact: CDC Media Relations (404) 639-3286 Public Health investigation seeks people who may have been exposed to extensively drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR TB) infected person. WHO: Dr. Julie Gerberding, Director, CDC Dr. Martin Cetron, Director, CDC Division of Global Migration and Quarantine Dr. Kenneth Castro, Director, CDC Division of Tuberculosis Elimination WHAT: Release of information about the action and steps that CDC is taking in response to a case of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR TB) in a U.S. citizen who undertook international travel. XDR TB is a recently defined subtype of multi-drug resistant TB and can cause severe illness and death. WHY: Like all forms of TB, XDR TB is a disease caused by germs that are spread person-to-person through the air. In this case, the infected patient traveled on two trans-Atlantic air flights and in doing so, may have exposed passengers and crew to XDR TB. A federal quarantine order has been issued and CDC is currently collaborating with U.S. state and local health departments, international Ministries of Health, the airline industry, and WHO. WHEN: Tuesday, May 29, 2007, 2 p.m. ET Brief remarks followed by Q&A Dial-in: US Media: 1-888-795-0855 International: 210-234-0025 Passcode: CDC Media Listen to the Briefing by visiting the webcast link at: www.videonewswire.com/event.asp?id=40136 Transcript A full transcript of this teleconference will be available following the briefing on the CDC web site at www.cdc.gov/od/oc/media/transcripts/t070529.htm . ### DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Content Source: Office of Enterprise Communication Page last modified: May 29, 2007 > Media Advisory > FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] > departments, international Ministries of Health, the airline industry, and > WHO. Some cut Nothing is mentioned about HIV or AIDS except in your heading, and it seems that the person concerned is heterosexual as he was going to his wedding and honeymoon. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070530/ap_on_he_me/tuberculosis_infection RamRod Sword of Baal wrote... > Nothing is mentioned about HIV or AIDS except in your heading, and it > seems that the person concerned is heterosexual as he was going to his > wedding and honeymoon. You missed Death's point. The man had TB and was quarantined because of it because of the risk of contagion he poses to others, but this is never done to people with HIV, because we all know they aren't contagious. > RamRod Sword of Baal wrote... >> Nothing is mentioned about HIV or AIDS except in your heading, and it [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > done > to people with HIV, because we all know they aren't contagious. Sitting alongside of someone cannot pass on HIV, but TB is an airborne disease and highly contagious. In previous post you said. >>What they don't bother to mention is that they're only concerned about >>this strain of TB because it poses an exceptional risk to people with AIDS<< This indicates just how little you know about TB. TB is highly contagious and difficult to treat, and not something you want loose in the community. More so with drug resistant TB. RamRod Sword of Baal wrote... > Sitting alongside of someone cannot pass on HIV, but TB is an airborne > disease and highly contagious. > ... > TB is highly contagious and difficult to treat, and not something you > want loose in the community. But in the end HIV afflicts so many more people than TB. While this guy is theoretically more contagious than the HIV patient he sat next to on the plane, in the end he probably would not have infected as many people with TB as the HIV dude infected with HIV before both succumbed to their respective diseases. Even an entire planeload of TB cases wouldn't match the thousands of HIV cases the other passenger will cause in the next few years. >| RamRod Sword of Baal wrote... >| > Sitting alongside of someone cannot pass on HIV, but TB is an airborne [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] >| match the thousands of HIV cases the other passenger will cause in the >| next few years. I don't know whether to laugh or cry at your neanderthalic post. --------------------------------------------------------------- jnorthau@yourpantsyahoo.com.au : Remove your pants to reply --------------------------------------------------------------- >>| RamRod Sword of Baal wrote... >>| > Sitting alongside of someone cannot pass on HIV, but TB is an airborne [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > I don't know whether to laugh or cry at your neanderthalic post. I think you roll on the floor with intense laughter. Then cry for joy full well knowing the real facts. Did you know a hetrosexual male has sex daily 365 times in a year in the 18 to 35 age group. > --------------------------------------------------------------- > jnorthau@yourpantsyahoo.com.au : Remove your pants to reply > --------------------------------------------------------------- >| > On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 10:30:45 -0700, in alt.politics.homosexuality >| > crack baby <fred@crackwhoremagazine.com> [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] >| well knowing the real facts. Did you know a hetrosexual male has sex daily >| 365 times in a year in the 18 to 35 age group. Then they get married. The sex stops. The whining starts :-) --------------------------------------------------------------- jnorthau@yourpantsyahoo.com.au : Remove your pants to reply --------------------------------------------------------------- >>| > On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 10:30:45 -0700, in alt.politics.homosexuality >>| > crack baby <fred@crackwhoremagazine.com> [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] > jnorthau@yourpantsyahoo.com.au : Remove your pants to reply > --------------------------------------------------------------- I always recall a friend of mine who was married around 30, and we never spoke of sex, but one day we did. He was a very easy going guy, well balanced and everything going for him, wife, children, dog, house with a picket fence, and church going people. The one time we spoke of sex, he said he did it around once a month, which surprised me. He must have been the exception to those that have sex 365 days a year.......... >| > On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 23:23:55 +1000, in alt.politics.homosexuality >| > "Robert McElhinney" <rjm1973@optusnet.com.au> [quoted text clipped - 35 lines] >| > >| > Then they get married. The sex stops. The whining starts :-) >| I always recall a friend of mine who was married around 30, and we never >| spoke of sex, but one day we did. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >| The one time we spoke of sex, he said he did it around once a month, which >| surprised me. But they are being good little christians - sex is for procreation purposes only. >| He must have been the exception to those that have sex 365 days a >| year.......... --------------------------------------------------------------- jnorthau@yourpantsyahoo.com.au : Remove your pants to reply --------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff North wrote... > I don't know whether to laugh or cry at your neanderthalic post. Laugh at me, but I'm right. I keep hearing the health authorities describe this XDR-TB strain as "rare" and "hard to transmit," two propaganda slogans they recycled from the early years of the HIV epidemic, and my favorite slogan that reassures us that there is little risk of contagion, but that safer breathing practices should always be used when sharing the same air as others (e.g., the other passengers should have been wearing filtration masks). "RamRod Sword of Baal" <RamRod@truth_only.com> wrote in message > Nothing is mentioned about HIV or AIDS except in your heading, you mean the heading that clearly states, but not hiv or aids? The article was about something along the lines of blah blah blah quarantine. One man had/has TB and grubments in several countries go ape-sh.t. Quarantine, for one case of TB but as the header says, but not hiv or aids, go figure. I'll attempt to type slower for you in the future ( . ) ( . ) Death wrote... > Media Advisory > FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > travel. XDR TB is a recently defined subtype of multi-drug resistant TB and can cause severe > illness and death... What they don't bother to mention is that they're only concerned about this strain of TB because it poses an exceptional risk to people with AIDS. But imagine that instead of TB it was HIV, and instead of breathing on people on the plane, that he had jabbed each and every passenger with a needle. In that case, not only wouldn't they quarantine him, they would give him a goddamn medal and hold a parade down Main Street in his honor. "crack baby" <fred@crackwhoremagazine.com> wrote in message > What they don't bother to mention is that they're only concerned about this > strain of TB because it poses an exceptional risk to people with AIDS. But > imagine that instead of TB it was HIV, ... Twenty-five years has shown people that drug-resistant HIV is to be celebrated with parades instead of a quarantine. Lol, I say party-on, HIV is not air-borne so it poses no risk to those who do not engage in high risk behaviors. |
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