Tuberculosis

**cj001f** · 05-31-2007, 01:50 PM

Or, the lawyer just doesn't get it:

"I didn't want to put anybody at risk," the Georgia-based man told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "We just wanted to come home and get treatment.

"I'm a very well-educated, successful, intelligent person. This is insane to me that I have an armed guard outside my door when I've cooperated with everything other than the whole solitary confinement in Italy thing."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2091302,00.html

15 minutes until the first personal injury suit is filed against the personal injury lawyer?

**Joey Joe Joe Junior Shabadoo** · 05-31-2007, 01:52 PM

Just in case you wanted to put a face and name to the mysterious patient.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/...n2869316.shtml

**Obstruction** · 05-31-2007, 02:02 PM

That right there is one self centered piece of shit.

**bio-smear** · 05-31-2007, 02:08 PM

**Mofro261** · 05-31-2007, 02:45 PM

^^^^^
Cynomolgus macques. It's what we( my work, not me really) use for TB vaccine testing.

Nearly 2 billion people have been infected with TB, with 1 in 10 infected becoming diseased and leading to 2-3 million TB related deaths each year. XDR TB is a serious threat and it takes up to 6 weeks to determine if a strain is XDR.

Still, that guy is a tool.

**PNWbrit** · 05-31-2007, 03:32 PM

Originally Posted by Mofro261

Still, that guy is a tool.

Yep!

and.....wait for it....The tool's father in law works at the CDC!

Jail time or his bankruptcy from frivolous litigation would both be fitting ends to the this story.

**PassTheDutchie** · 06-01-2007, 08:50 AM

Is it me, or does this photo look like something straight out of porndom?

**stupendous man** · 06-01-2007, 09:14 AM

does this freak anyone else out? to think how quickly a strain could escape and fuck up the world as we know it.

**Hutch** · 06-01-2007, 09:17 AM

Originally Posted by PassTheDutchie

Is it me, or does this photo look like something straight out of porndom?

Yep. $5 says the naughty nurse takes it in the pooper.

**Tippster** · 06-01-2007, 09:35 AM

That's his wife, and she's fucking HOT.

Oh, not only does his Father-in-Law work at the CDC, he studies Tubercolosis.

**Crass3000** · 06-01-2007, 09:55 AM

Originally Posted by PNWbrit

Jail time or his bankruptcy from frivolous litigation would both be fitting ends to the this story.

Hopefully he gets sued because I heard on the news he wasn't going to be charged with any crime which is rediculous.

**Cliff Huckable** · 06-01-2007, 10:16 AM

The disclosure that the patient is a lawyer — and specifically a personal injury lawyer — outraged many people....Speaker’s new father-in-law, Robert C. Cooksey, is a CDC microbiologist whose specialty is TB

An Atlanta lawyer infected with a rare, often fatal form of tuberculosis said Friday he has a recording made before he flew to Europe that shows health officials told him he was not a risk to others...In an interview with ABC's "Good Morning America," Andrew Speaker, 31, said his father asked health officials whether Speaker was a risk to anyone, and health officials said he was not. "My dad taped it," he said.

The 31-year-old personal injury lawyer asked for forgiveness for sneaking on board two transatlantic flights to Europe and Montreal, even though he was aware he carried highly drug-resistant TB and was warned by U.S. health officials not to travel.
....Hiring a private jet would have cost $100,000, which he did not have, Speaker said.

"I am the father-in-law of Andrew Speaker....I'm a research microbiologist in CDC's Division of Tuberculosis (TB) Elimination....I wasn't involved in any decisions my son-in-law made regarding his travel..."

**Cliff Huckable** · 06-01-2007, 10:26 AM

Originally Posted by Crass3000

Hopefully he gets sued because I heard on the news he wasn't going to be charged with any crime which is rediculous.

The most selfish boy in America...

ANDREW "DOUCHEBAG" SPEAKER

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**smmokan** · 06-01-2007, 01:17 PM

Did you guys see the article in the Denver Post (and elsewhere, I'm assuming) that says his father has a recorded conversation with the guy's doctors. In the conversation, they say that Speaker is not a risk to anyone else... that's pretty important, I'd say.

**stupendous man** · 06-01-2007, 01:38 PM

that was before the flight back through canada once he was on the no-fly list.

selfish yes, but he says he did it cuz he knew his best shot for treatment was in denver and the CDC was gonna confine him in italy. I honestly don't know if I wouldn't do the same.

**Joey Joe Joe Junior Shabadoo** · 06-01-2007, 01:48 PM

Originally Posted by stupendous man

does this freak anyone else out? to think how quickly a strain could escape and fuck up the world as we know it.

I wasn't, but you're starting to freak me out

Originally Posted by stupendous man

I honestly don't know if I wouldn't do the same.

**Cliff Huckable** · 06-01-2007, 01:53 PM

Originally Posted by smmokan

Did you guys see the article in the Denver Post (and elsewhere, I'm assuming) that says his father has a recorded conversation with the guy's doctors. In the conversation, they say that Speaker is not a risk to anyone else... that's pretty important, I'd say.

You have wonder why they recorded it. My guess is they knew what they were being told was incorrect but wanted to get home without having to shell out the $100,000 it would have cost to avoid possibly killing lots of other people.
You don't record things like that except to use it as "insurance". If you really believed the situation was OK, why record it? He'd been told repeatedly not to travel but he did. He deserves a long prison sentence.

Originally Posted by stupendous man

that was before the flight back through canada once he was on the no-fly list.

selfish yes, but he says he did it cuz he knew his best shot for treatment was in denver and the CDC was gonna confine him in italy. I honestly don't know if I wouldn't do the same.

Sorry man, then you'd deserve to live the rest of your life as one of the most hated little weasels on the planet. (But you didn't do it, so I love you.

)

**stupendous man** · 06-01-2007, 02:00 PM

Just ain't the same when its your life on the line is all I'm saying. I'm sure you all are one hundred percent altruistic and would simply say 'yes spooky government agency, I will do as told while the bureaucracy decides if I will live or die.'

**ptavv** · 06-01-2007, 02:14 PM

His doctors told him he wasn't at risk to infect other people.

His TB isn't even airborne contagious unless he coughs or sneezes on you.

Jesus, this pandemonium OMG THE WORLD IS ENDING shit is ridiculous.

Having TB does not automatically mean that you are exhalations are infectious.

It's irresponsible of the media for it to have gotten to this point, but I guess no one cares when they can stir the pot some more and get a few more viewers.

**Odin** · 06-01-2007, 02:19 PM

Originally Posted by ptavv

His doctors told him he was at risk to infect other people.

His TB is airborne contagious unless he coughs or sneezes on you.

Jesus, THE WORLD IS ENDING.

Having TB mean that you are exhalations are infectious.

the media cares when they can stir more viewers.

**Cliff Huckable** · 06-01-2007, 02:20 PM

Originally Posted by stupendous man

Just ain't the same when its your life on the line is all I'm saying. I'm sure you all are one hundred percent altruistic and would simply say 'yes spooky government agency, I will do as told while the bureaucracy decides if I will live or die.'

It wasn't like that - he was told not to go. I wouldn't have gone. Simple.

He thinks that if things get bad his one chance is in Denver or wherever - and he leaves for Europe?! Wtf?!!

**Crass3000** · 06-01-2007, 02:21 PM

Originally Posted by ptavv

His doctors told him he wasn't at risk to infect other people.

His TB isn't even airborne contagious unless he coughs or sneezes on you.

Jesus, this pandemonium OMG THE WORLD IS ENDING shit is ridiculous.

Having TB does not automatically mean that you are exhalations are infectious.

It's irresponsible of the media for it to have gotten to this point, but I guess no one cares when they can stir the pot some more and get a few more viewers.

I have heard that his strain is hard to transmit to other people but the point is that it is a bad strain and the selfish bastard took a flight that he knew he shouldn't have been taking. If this wasn't that big of a deal then the CDC wouldn't be holding the guy in quaranteen.

**Joey Joe Joe Junior Shabadoo** · 06-01-2007, 02:28 PM

Originally Posted by stupendous man

Just ain't the same when its your life on the line is all I'm saying. I'm sure you all are one hundred percent altruistic and would simply say 'yes spooky government agency, I will do as told while the bureaucracy decides if I will live or die.'

CDC= spooky government agency? That's right, I noticed their logo on the black helicopters buzzing my house last night. Are they the ones listening in on my phone calls too?

**wi3dzmin** · 06-01-2007, 02:29 PM

Originally Posted by ptavv

His doctors told him he wasn't at risk to infect other people.

His TB isn't even airborne contagious unless he coughs or sneezes on you.

Jesus, this pandemonium OMG THE WORLD IS ENDING shit is ridiculous.

Having TB does not automatically mean that you are exhalations are infectious.

It's irresponsible of the media for it to have gotten to this point, but I guess no one cares when they can stir the pot some more and get a few more viewers.

Congratulations on the dumbest post I have seen here yet. Just stick to posting cat pictures.