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 Man With Lethal TB Flew To Greece

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Karen Shelton View Drop Down
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Posted: May 30, 2007 at 10:31pm
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By Eve Conant
Newsweek
Updated: 11:06 a.m. CT May 30, 2007

May 30, 2007 - Passengers and crew on two recent transatlantic flights may have been exposed to a rare and unusually drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis by an unidentified man who is now under federal quarantine. Officials at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) say it


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Posted: May 30, 2007 at 10:31pm
OK...now that you've read this article...I just want you to know it scares the bejebers out of me.
 
I flew to NYC in early March, flew back to Dallas and then one day later turned around and flew to Baltimore/Washington D.C.  By the time I got back to Dallas I was very very ill.  I picked up some sort of weird strain of bacterial infection and nothing (antibiotics and assorted drugs) seemed to help. 
 
I actually was in bed ill for close to four weeks and felt like an episode of Dr. House since my docs could not exactly figure out what type of virus I had caught. 
 
It is an unknown event for me to surrender to any type of sickness.  I have been known to sit at my PC with 100+ fever because I did not want to be away from HB.com and let any customers or visitors down. 
 
But this past infection was so bad it attacked my kidneys and related organs to the point that I was in horrendous pain and didn't care what happened to anyone or anything.  For me...that was really ill. 
 
When I read about things like this TB guy it freaks me totally out.
 
Any reactions on this piece?  What do you do to prevent catching a bug like this on a flight? 
Karen Shelton2007-05-30 22:16:32
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