Re: Re: Why the TB Hype.. maybe.........

[Guest guest]

exactly. Doesn't make sense at all. pennyBarb Peck <egroups1bp@...> wrote: I live only a few Hrs from where Speaker came thru the Canadian/US border crossing.His name was on the "Don't let back into the USA list" with the border patrol - and the Border Patrol Officer made his own fatefull decision to let him enter "because he didn't look sick".The Officer has been releived of his post for doing this.So we (near the border) think that this is

MUCH MORE about letting a person into the country that was on a "don't not enter " list than the reason he was on the list in the first place...Even so- I wonder why ALL the press on this - is it because it's so easy to enter the US - even with our lists - or is there just nothing else in the news (like this is a diversion from the death toll in Iraq) or is there someone out to "get" the father-in-law (like how'd it become news so quickly? The article Penny posted is correct- there's ALOT of latent non- infectious TB in the US So what-up here?Barb>> See, what I'm trying to get at that the reporter briefly touched on is why are we worked up enough about this one guy to quarantine him, when so many people have this bug or

similar strains?

[Guest guest]

This may be the same bug they discovered in South

Africa, just last year. It must be infectious,

because it is spreading. It has a 50% death rate,

those that get it will almost certainly die, without

treatment.

--- Penny Houle <pennyhoule@...> wrote:

> exactly. Doesn't make sense at all.

>

> penny

>

> Barb Peck <egroups1bp@...> wrote:

> I live only a few Hrs from where Speaker

> came thru the Canadian/US

> border crossing.

>

> His name was on the " Don't let back into the USA

> list " with the border

> patrol - and the Border Patrol Officer made his own

> fatefull decision

> to let him enter " because he didn't look sick " .

>

> The Officer has been releived of his post for doing

> this.

>

> So we (near the border) think that this is MUCH MORE

> about letting a

> person into the country that was on a " don't not

> enter " list than the

> reason he was on the list in the first place...

>

> Even so- I wonder why ALL the press on this - is it

> because it's so

> easy to enter the US - even with our lists - or is

> there just nothing

> else in the news (like this is a diversion from the

> death toll in Iraq)

> or is there someone out to " get " the father-in-law

> (like how'd it

> become news so quickly? The article Penny posted is

> correct- there's

> ALOT of latent non- infectious TB in the US

>

> So what-up here?

>

> Barb

>

>

> >

> > See, what I'm trying to get at that the reporter

> briefly touched on

> is why are we worked up enough about this one guy to

> quarantine him,

> when so many people have this bug or similar

> strains?

>

>

>

>

>

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