Monday, October 12, 2009

Why is the name of the tuberculosis airline passenger secret


Why is the name of the tuberculosis airline passenger secret?
He is a lawyer. My guess is that he threatened to sue anyone who reveals his name.
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Mass hysteria..........
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Probably. One law for lawyers and another for the rest of us.. It may be so he can infect more people, a form of population control. He seems totally unconcerned about doing it as long as he can do exactly as he likes.
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maybe the are afraid of a negative domino effect... hate crime... i have no clue.
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So that people wont try to harrass or hurt him in anyway. So that he can have some privacy
5 :
He knows that he would get H*LL beat out of him if we knew who he was! He is an idiot
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same reason why a doctor wouldn't tell you. to keep his identity secret.... i mean, would you want the whole world to know you had TB!?
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I heard someone from Centers for Disease Control talk about this very point yesterday. He said that it's a doctor-patient thing, privacy rules the day, and - get this! - that to name him would be to ostracize and marginalize him and deprive him of compassion. Not *exactly* those words, but very close.
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My guess is he has the same right to patient confidentiality everybody else does!
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awesome guy before you go spread rumours of conspiracy can you tell me the name of patient zero in the SARS outbreak.......no i thought not
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I do believe if you know how to read German and go to the German web site they give his name. Other countries do not have to abide by American laws. My husband is German and reads and speaks it and said they gave his name.
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IF they will not tell you the names of people who are HIV positive why should they tell you the name of a guy with TB? And while the CDC did screw up and let him fly to overseas, once this guy was told he had a very dangerous form of TB, he should have done what they told him to do. If it truly is as dangerous as they say, he endangered hundreds if not thousands of lives by his actions. At the very least, he should have charges against him for his actions



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