TB Man's Wild Ride

€uroMeinke · 06-07-2007, 09:49 PM

I heard this NPR account of the story on my way in to work this morning and I'm just fascinated how this all played out. Seems like the CDC posturing and poor communications spun the whole thing out of control. I have to also confess some admiration for Andrew Speakers' "fk it I'm going to get married" approach to this not bowing to the intimidation of the CDC officials - it sort of warms my anarchist heart despite the possibility of worldwide disease outbreaks. Anyway, wonder if it's time to pull down those "Avian Flu" drills and run this scenario against them.

Ghoulish Delight · 06-07-2007, 10:43 PM

I heard at one point that, I believe it was his future (current? did the wedding happen?) father-in-law, works for *drum roll* the CDC.

€uroMeinke · 06-07-2007, 10:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

I heard at one point that, I believe it was his future (current? did the wedding happen?) father-in-law, works for *drum roll* the CDC.

Yes - and denies any link to strains of TB he was studying - this story is ripe for the conspiracy theorists...

Not Afraid · 06-08-2007, 08:52 AM

I've been following this story as much as I can. NPR has had really good coverage. I guess it tell you a bit about me when I'm entralled with this story and try to ignore Hilton.

Ghoulish Delight · 06-08-2007, 08:57 AM

It sounds to me like this was a case of CDC policy being to take the over-cautious route and quarantine every single person they find with drug-resistant strains, even ones that are determined initially to be non-virulant. Meanwhile an individual doctor, either ignorant of said policy or just not caring and knowing that he wasn't really contagious, made the statement to the patient that he didn't pose a risk.

And I can see both sides here. It's his wedding, and if the doctor is confident that he's not contagious, why torture him? But from the CDC perspective, the consequences of not being uber-cautious and following isolation procedures, even in seemingly "obviously safe" cases are pretty dire. All it takes is one misdiagnoses and you've got an epidemic of TB with no easy cure.

So I understand why the guy did what he did, and I understand why the CDC was ticked off.

06-07-2007, 09:49 PM	#1
€uroMeinke L'Hédoniste Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: A.S.C.O.T. Posts: 8,671	TB Man's Wild Ride I heard this NPR account of the story on my way in to work this morning and I'm just fascinated how this all played out. Seems like the CDC posturing and poor communications spun the whole thing out of control. I have to also confess some admiration for Andrew Speakers' "fk it I'm going to get married" approach to this not bowing to the intimidation of the CDC officials - it sort of warms my anarchist heart despite the possibility of worldwide disease outbreaks. Anyway, wonder if it's time to pull down those "Avian Flu" drills and run this scenario against them. __________________ I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance. Friedrich Nietzsche
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Ghoulish Delight I Floop the Pig Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Alternative Swankstyle Posts: 19,348	I heard at one point that, I believe it was his future (current? did the wedding happen?) father-in-law, works for drum roll the CDC. __________________ 'He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.' -TJ
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06-08-2007, 08:52 AM	#4
Not Afraid HI! Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 17,108	I've been following this story as much as I can. NPR has had really good coverage. I guess it tell you a bit about me when I'm entralled with this story and try to ignore Hilton.
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06-08-2007, 08:57 AM	#5
Ghoulish Delight I Floop the Pig Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Alternative Swankstyle Posts: 19,348	It sounds to me like this was a case of CDC policy being to take the over-cautious route and quarantine every single person they find with drug-resistant strains, even ones that are determined initially to be non-virulant. Meanwhile an individual doctor, either ignorant of said policy or just not caring and knowing that he wasn't really contagious, made the statement to the patient that he didn't pose a risk. And I can see both sides here. It's his wedding, and if the doctor is confident that he's not contagious, why torture him? But from the CDC perspective, the consequences of not being uber-cautious and following isolation procedures, even in seemingly "obviously safe" cases are pretty dire. All it takes is one misdiagnoses and you've got an epidemic of TB with no easy cure. So I understand why the guy did what he did, and I understand why the CDC was ticked off. __________________ 'He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.' -TJ
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