Next time you travel, think of all the surfaces your hands and face come in contact with while traveling – plus your shoes and bag (that is more convenient to sit on the floor than hold)? This is something like a 16 hr. flight, just navigating the isles to and from the restrooms, sitting in passenger boarding areas at the terminals, restrooms with warm humidity levels, gift shops, restaurants – the list is endless!

She’s in isolation now until she is no longer infectious.

This is a multi-drug resistant form, and people that flew on that long flight back should be concerned.

Right on, right_on!

Andrew Speaker was never contagious and he was vilified by everyone. There are many carriers out there who never become sick and never infect anyone.

The greater concern should be illegals who are never screened for disease. That’s where the increase in TB cases (and other diseases) is coming from.

The spectre of TB has earned its place amongst the worlds scariest diseases, and we can actually thank Liberalism and heir acceptance of the heroin junkies and professional “Residentially Challenged Urban Nomads”, (bums and winos) along with their huge welcome mat they have out for all those “Undocumented Citizens” living in he shadows working all hose jobs Americans can’t…I mean won’t work for this super strain.

While still caught the same way, it has mutated to show resistance to all previous treatments.

If you are healthy individual, you generally need not worry. It is spread from the water droplets of an infected individual into mucous glnds such as eyes, mouth, nose. Don’t have people cough on or near you. Wash you hands and use hand saniyizer. Keep clean and avoid recent immigrants or people who have returned from over seas with flu or cold like symptoms.

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Some people out there have compromised immune systems (transplant patients, kidney patients, people with diabetes, etc) who could be very easily killed by exposure to something like this.

I don’t mean to be disrepectful, but consider this: Would you still be trying to understand her ’side’ of things if it was your elderly grandmother that died because of her desire to be back home? How about a cousin with Diabetes? A sister in law that just had breast surgery to remove a cancer?

Think about it. She clearly did not.

Illegals crossing the borders every second of every day, infesting our country with diseases.

I blame our government for the many deaths to come due to once eradicated diseases – returning to the USA.

Yes, she would have had some kind of positive culture (probably sputum) for them to know it was multi-drug resistant TB.

The woman, whose name has not been released, was reportedly diagnosed with multidrug-resistant TB while in India and was being treated for the disease before she returned to the Bay Area on Dec. 13.

Doesn’t that mean she was actually infected, if she was diagnosed with TB and put into isolation upon her return?

I do understand what you are sayng, but my point is, that once we try to “see all sides” in a situation which is morally, and ethically wrong, we sometimes fall into an emotional trap we set for ourselves.

Trying to “understand” where this woman’s thought process failed, or why, is a futile exercise. There can be no excuse for what she did. As human beings, we have free agency…that is, the freedom to choose what we do or do not do. She chose poorly…I feel sorrow for her, and her family, but I choose not to be compassionate towards her because of her inhumane decision to take others with her.

Short of putting her in solitary detention to prevent her from leaving, how could any medical establishment, or government for that matter, be held accountable?

But, as I said earlier, I still fault the medical establishment just as much as I fault her. Why did they release her?