he is not stupid........he is an inconsiderate attorney. I hope all the passengers sue his arse.
[h1]TB Patient ID'd As Atlanta Attorney, 31[/h1] [p class="byline"]By GREG BLUESTEIN, Associated Press Writer[/p] [p class="date"]Thursday, May 31, 2007[/p] [div class="sidebar"][a href="vny!://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/n/a/2007/05/31/national/a092631D77.DTL&o=0&type=printable" target=""][img alt="Andrew Speaker, 31, who has a rare and dangerous form of ..." src="vny!://sfgate.com/c/pictures/2007/06/01_t/mn_tbvictim114_t.gif" border="0" vspace="1"][/a] [a href="vny!://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/n/a/2007/05/31/national/a092631D77.DTL&o=1&type=printable" target=""][img alt="A jet arrives at a hangar at Centennial Airport in Colora..." src="vny!://sfgate.com/c/pictures/2007/06/01_t/mn_tb_coder102_t.gif" border="0" vspace="1"][/a] [a href="vny!://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/n/a/2007/05/31/national/a092631D77.DTL&o=2&type=printable" target=""][img alt="Dr. Michael Leonard, right, and Dr. Henry Blumberg, left,..." src="vny!://sfgate.com/c/pictures/2007/06/01_t/mn_tb_gawh101_t.gif" border="0" vspace="1"][/a] [a href="vny!://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/n/a/2007/05/31/national/a092631D77.DTL&o=3&type=printable" target=""][img alt="Tracking TB Patient. Chronicle and Associated Press Graphic" src="vny!://sfgate.com/c/pictures/2007/05/31_t/mn_tracking_patient_t.gif" border="0" vspace="1"][/a] [/div] [div class="clear"][/div][/div][span id="articlebody"] (05-31) 11:05 PDT ATLANTA, (AP) -- [/p] [/p]The father-in-law of the tuberculosis patient under the first federal quarantine since 1963 works as a microbiologist at a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention laboratory that studies TB and other bacterial infections.[/p] [/p]Bob Cooksey said he gave his 31-year-old son-in-law, attorney Andrew Speaker, "fatherly advice" when he learned he contracted the disease.[/p] [/p]"I'm hoping and praying that he's getting the proper treatment, that my daughter is holding up mentally and physically," Cooksey told The Associated Press. "Had I known that my daughter was in any risk, I would not allow her to travel."[/p] [/p]The son-in-law has said he knew he had TB when he flew from Atlanta to Europe in mid-May for his wedding and honeymoon, but he said he didn't find out until he was already in Rome that it was an extensively drug-resistant strain considered especially dangerous.[/p] [/p]Despite warnings from federal health officials not to board another long flight, he flew home for treatment fearing he wouldn't survive if he didn't reach the U.S.[/p] [/p]Doctors plan to begin treating the man immediately with two antibiotics, one oral and one intravenous. He also will undergo a basic physical exam, a test to evaluate how infectious he is and a CT scan and lung X-ray, Allstetter said. Doctors hope to also determine where he contracted the disease.[/p] [/p]He will be kept in a special unit with two rooms and a ventilation system, Allstetter said.[/p] [/p]"He may not leave that room much for several weeks," Allstetter said.[/p] [/p] [/p] [/p] [/p] [/p]___[/p] [/p]Associated Press writers Lara Jakes Jordan in Washington; Mike Stobbe and Daniel Yee in Atlanta; and Collen Slevin in Denver contributed to this report.[/p] [/p]___[/p] [/p]On the Net:[/p] [/p]CDC:[/p] [/p]Public Health Agency of Canada:[/p] [/p][a href="vny!://www.cdc.gov/"][/a][a href="vny!://www.cdc.gov/"]www.cdc.gov[/a]/[/p] [/p][a href="vny!://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/"][/a][a href="vny!://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/"]www.phac-aspc.gc.ca[/a]/[/p][/span] [div]
