Comments on: TB traveler update: 8 hours may be more than enough time to contract the disease

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » TB traveler update: TSA official retires amid uproar

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 23:40:32 +0000

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f274733b18a39d994903 — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 15:49:34 +0000

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By: Drtuddle

Drtuddle — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 14:13:32 +0000

(”I’m sick. Give ME something to make ME feel better. I want antibiotics!”) is leading to more and greater superbugs

Maybe it’s that commercial disclaimer attitude of “check with your doctor” “consult a physician” for every little thing. When you can just rub some vicks vapor rub on your feet for a cold.

By: 24K lady

24K lady — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 23:29:44 +0000

I see no reason we should not restrict travelers from certain countries that have demonstrated, by their lack of dutiful policing of those known to harbor certain diseases, with sanctions and/or a concentrated warning to travelers to those countries that they will need health screening before re-entering the U.S.. Any person testing positive from contact with this person should submit a bill to the Mexican government for their medical expenses. This is an excellent exercise in how much we should trust a passport from that part of the world. Any document that can be forged – will be. For that matter, any U.S. citizen testing positive for such a hazardous illness should have to forfeit their passport as well.

By: Dr.Cwac.Cwac

Dr.Cwac.Cwac — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 22:07:20 +0000

I teach microbiology, and I believe in giving the facts. We have chapters on respiratory and gastrointestinal diseases. I do not let my political philosophy get into the lecture (no indoctrinating here!), but I do present current evidence backed with epidemiology. When I give my lectures, I give the evidence that uncontrolled and unfettered border crossings along with inadequate health screenings is leading to public health disaster. Other than TB, there are diseases that we have not seen in the country for 50 years. And it is only going to get worse. The failings on the education side of medical doctors along with our narcissism as patients (”I’m sick. Give ME something to make ME feel better. I want antibiotics!”) is leading to more and greater superbugs. Illegal aliens use emergency rooms as their primary source of medical care, and when they come for treatment, they not only bring what ails them but any other potentially infectious microorganisms that may be endemic to their country of origin which then are released into your local community.

Why worry about the threat of Islamofascism when you could be killed by a simple infection of a papercut?

By: MNDavenotPC

MNDavenotPC — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:38:14 +0000

OhEssYouCowboys on October 22, 2007 at 5:07 PM

Chertoff must go and now! Oh I live in Mn farther upwind , thank God!

By: leepro

leepro — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:22:28 +0000

The Typhoid Mary story's true... link: "Typhoid Mary"

By: OhEssYouCowboys

OhEssYouCowboys — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:07:06 +0000

I want the lot of Homeland Security … “Security” – snicker – to contract dysentery from the next, friendly illegal crossing our border.

Oh, for the record, I’m in Oklahoma, so I’m upwind.