TB Man's Wild Ride

[Ghoulish Delight]

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.