The Selfishness of one.....

As of late I have been posting about things I have found disturbing in the news. The topic I want to talk about today is no different. I am enraged. Hence my picture shown here. After hearing on the news and reading in the paper, I am angered. I am angered that one individual can be so irresponsible. Thinking solely of himself with total disregard for the impact his action have on others. I am talking about the American gentlemen who is infected with deadly strain of TB and knowingly chose to take international flights, putting many at risk.

What I have read is that this man now disputes that the doctor's told him he could not fly. He says that they "recommended" he not fly. I guess to him this meant that he had the green light to fly. How irresponsible can an individual be? Then to add insult to injury, by the time the authorities track the man and his new wife down, they had already crossed many countries in Europe. When the authorities wanted to make personal arrangement to get the man and his wife back to the US the couple fled and caught an international flight to Montreal.

Here are some of the excerpts from a news report......

".....The man at the centre of the international incident, an American citizen, flew to Europe on May 12. Authorities say he did so against the advice of his local public health officials, who had informed him on May 10 he was infected with a multi-drug resistant strain of tuberculosis and should not be taking commercial flights. Further testing revealed that he was actually infected with extensively drug resistant TB.

The man disputes the assertion he was told not to fly, telling the Atlanta Journal-Constitution in an interview that public health officials told him they would prefer it if he didn't fly. But he felt healthy and didn't want to cancel his planned wedding and honeymoon and went ahead with the trip. "

The report then goes on to say...

"...While in Rome the CDC located the man and told him he had extensively drug resistant TB and should not take any additional commercial flights.
CDC officials began trying to arrange for his safe return to the U.S. but the couple abruptly left Rome, flying to Prague. There they boarded the flight for Montreal, where they rented a car and drove into the United States at the border crossing at Champlain, N.Y.
The man told the Atlanta newspaper he deliberately flew to Canada to try to sneak back into the United States to evade a U.S. no-fly order. But it appears the U.S. order hadn't been conveyed to European public health authorities and airlines"

I couldn't believe what I read ....."he deliberately flew to Canada to try to sneak into the US." Doesn't that constitute a criminal act? This is just wrong. This man showed total disregard for human life. He selfishly went on his way travelling around Europe potentially spreading his germs to anyone he came in contact with for any length of time. His actions are beyond comprehension.....I am so outraged. He was/is a potential lethal ticking time bomb spreading his germs to anyone he has had close contact with. What total disregard for life.

I think criminal charges should be laid against this man. If I am not mistaken (and any of you with a law background feel free to correct me) there is precedence out there that when and individual knowingly has a communicable disease that can be fetal and intentionally infects another, this person can be found guilty of manslaughter. I think the same should apply here. This man chose to travel knowing he had a potentially deadly disease which is highly contagious. I say lock him up. But you know what....his sentence has been dealt in that he has a 50% chance of this disease being fatal.

If you would like to read more of this story you can read it hear