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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: Thor on January 12, 2010, 06:20:27 PM
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(CBS) A passenger with tuberculosis was allowed to board a U.S. Airways flight from Philadelphia to San Francisco Saturday and fly cross-country, despite being on a "do-not-board" list.
Officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the passenger was detained after the flight arrived in San Francisco Saturday night and taken to a local hospital.
CBS Station KYW in Philadelphia reports that the unidentified male passenger was apparently placed on a "do-not-board" list submitted to the TSA and CDC on January 8, 2010.
Investigators are trying to determine how the noticeably-ill man made it through security checkpoints and onto the plane.
CDC officials said because the flight was less than eight hours, the risk to other passengers aboard the plane was low.
Tuberculosis (or TB) is a potentially deadly infectious disease that typically affects the lung, but can attack the rest of the body. It was once the leading cause of death in the U.S.
Symptoms include a cough, sometimes with blood, that lasts more than three weeks, chest pains, chills and fever.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/01/12/national/main6087950.shtml
WTF ??? Is DHS and the airlines asleep at the wheel??
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I just heard this on Fox as well.....
yeah....it's JUST another "systemic failure".....
Dear God....what is the purpose of the f'n lists IF NO ONE EVER LOOKS AT THEM???!!!!!!
:angryvillagers:
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I just heard this on Fox as well.....
yeah....it's JUST another "systemic failure".....
Dear God....what is the purpose of the f'n lists IF NO ONE EVER LOOKS AT THEM???!!!!!!
:angryvillagers:
If you think they have anything to do with safety or liberty, I believe you would be incorrect.
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His name is probably Muhammad or Osama and they didn't want to look like they were profiling him. :whatever:
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Nappy claiming the system worked in 3...2...1...
And of course, Zerobama will live up to his statement of the buck stopping with him.../sarc
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Oh goody, a new typhoid mary.
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Millions of people are allowed to enter this country unchecked with TB and God knows what else. What diffence would one little 'ol person with TB matter? :whatever:
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Millions of people are allowed to enter this country unchecked with TB and God knows what else. What diffence would one little 'ol person with TB matter? :whatever:
Obama just lifted the ban on AIDS patients being allowed to immigrate here.
Obama says (fill in the blank), "I want to spread the___________around".
Hell, if we're all dying then it should be easier to get his healthcare plan passed.
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Obama just lifted the ban on AIDS patients being allowed to immigrate here.
Obama says (fill in the blank), "I want to spread the___________around".
Hell, if we're all dying then it should be easier to get his healthcare plan passed.
Why would an AIDS patient want to come to the US when we have health care that is worse than third world countries?
(off DU mode)
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How many people were exposed to it by him is just sick