Groups question US plan to detain sick travelers!!!

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Infectious disease experts and the American Civil Liberties Union raised concerns on Friday about an agreement that would allow U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and customs agents to detain anyone who looked sick with bird flu.

The memorandum of understanding, a copy of which was provided to Reuters, also provides for Customs and Border Protection agents to give personal details of airline passengers to the CDC

It was signed in October by Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff. HHS spokeswoman Christina Pearson denied it was secret or sinister.

"We have had this agreement in place and it's to help CDC when there is a report of communicable diseases on an airplane," Pearson said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060422/us_nm/birdflu_quarantine_dc

can they determine who looks sick is sick because of bird flu? If a person does look sick, it could me for a variety of other reasons, so just looking at a person and making a diagnosis of bird flu sounds foolish. Whoops, I forgot, this is coming from the Bush administration...of course it's foolish.

line up for a health check. Next showers . . . .

Arrest someone with allergies but let the person who really has bird flu get away.