TB Patient's Father-in-Law to Be Investigated

NYT/AP: TB Patient's Relative to Be Investigated
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: June 2, 2007

DENVER (AP) -- A federal microbiologist, the father-in-law of the man quarantined with a drug-resistant form of tuberculosis, will be investigated to see how he was involved in the case, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Saturday....

Speaker has said he, his doctors and the CDC all knew he had TB that was resistant to some drugs before he flew to Europe for his wedding and honeymoon last month.

Robert Cooksey, whose specialty at the CDC is TB and other bacteria, and who attended his daughter's wedding, has said he provided ''fatherly advice'' to Speaker about traveling with the illness.

Speaker said he was advised at the time by Fulton County, Ga., health authorities that he was not contagious or a danger to anyone. Officials told him they would prefer he didn't fly, but no one ordered him not to, he said.

Speaker was in Europe when he learned tests showed he had not just TB, but an extremely drug-resistant strain known as XDR.

Federal health officials said Friday that Cooksey had helped to find Speaker and diagnose his condition. They would not give any more information about the investigation....

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Tuberculosis-Infection.html?_r=1&oref=login

They didn't KNOW he had the extreme drug resistant strain until after he'd flown. He seems to think they ought to have, or they did and just wouldn't say so.. ugh.

This is IMHO of course.

and the father-in-law's connection with TB work seems suspicious. I am totally confused over the wedding, was there a wedding or not and did the father-in-law go to Europe? Also, what the hell is "fatherly advice" about traveling with the illness.

before they find the connection here.


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Forgot the sarcasm smilies but really someone used a biological weapon
to put fear on this nation already, I guess it depends on which one
the MSM really covers that makes it important.
:sarcasm:

A man with a rare, drug-resistant form of TB has a gov't. microbiologist father-in-law who specializes in rare forms of TB and other bacteria.

If this was the plotline of a novel, 'contrived' wouldn't begin to describe the improbability of such an occurrence.

in our lives that we are suppose to see a connection to
they are only a causally inexplicable to the person or persons experiencing them.

The only thing that counts now is CSI because Sherlock Holmes is dead and his
deductive logic is not expedient anymore.

This is getting too bee-zarre.

"Officials told him they would prefer he didn't fly, but no one ordered him not to, he (Speaker) said."
Well, what did HIS EXPERT FIL say HE "PREFERRED"??? "Oh, sure, go marry; it's only a SLIGHT chance you'll infect my DAUGHTER."

I mean, W. T. H.??