Speaker for the Dead (And Chlamydia) (413 hits)
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Submitted by Not An Alter (View user info) at 2007-06-01 05:12:00 EDT
Andrew Speaker: Personal Injury attorney with drug resistant tuberculosis; name publicized because of international flights+stoke the terror of the terrorists.
The patient was identified(lol confidentiality) as Andrew Speaker, a 31-year-old personal injury lawyer who returned last week from his wedding and honeymoon trip through Italy, the Greek isles and other spots in Europe. His new father-in-law, Robert C. Cooksey, is a CDC microbiologist whose specialty is TB and other bacteria. Cooksey would not comment on whether he reported his son-in-law to federal health authorities. Nor did the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention explain how the case came to their attention. However, Cooksey said that neither he nor his CDC laboratory was the source of his son-in-law's TB.
Andrew Speaker: medical hostage.
Speaker is now under quarantine at a hospital in Denver. He is the first infected person to be quarantined by the U.S. government since 1963.
over 40 years to perfect preventative medication, treatments, protocols and non-leper status; fucktards.
Andrew Speaker: Selfish and reckless.
"It's still very scary," 21-year-old Laney Wiggins(ENDER+ WIGGIN OMG), one of more than two dozen University of South Carolina-Aiken students who are getting skin tests for TB. "That is an outrageous number of people that he was very reckless with their health. It's not fair. It's selfish."
Very selfish, considering the herpes/HPV/chlamydia you proudly spread about campus.
Andrew Speaker: Paid off the Jews.
Dr. Gwen Huitt of National Jewish described Speaker as "a young, healthy individual" who is "doing extremely well." (OF COURSE THE JEW WOULD SAY SUCH THINGS)
"By conventional methods that we traditionally use in the public health arena ... he would be considered low infectivity at this point in time," she said. "He is not coughing, he is healthy, he does not have a fever."
Andrew Speaker: Guinea Pig
Speaker's father-in-law has worked at the CDC for 32 years and is in the Division of Tuberculosis Elimination, where he works with TB and other organisms. He has co-authored papers on diabetes, TB and other diseases.
In a brief telephone interview with the AP, Cooksey said that he gave Speaker "fatherly advice" when he learned the young man had contracted the disease.
Cooksey: "Become An Hero."
Andrew Speaker: Biological Terrorist
However, other passengers are not considered at high risk of infection because tests indicated the amount of TB bacteria in Speaker was low, said Dr. Martin Cetron, director of the CDC's division of global migration and quarantine.
Health law experts said Speaker could be sued if others contract TB.
"There are a number of cases that say a person who negligently transmits an infectious disease could be held liable," said Lawrence Gostin, a public health law expert at Georgetown University. "So long as he knew it was infectious, and knew about the appropriate behavior but failed to comply, he could be held liable."
So can I sue the bar slut who gave me chlamydia?
Can you track her down from a half soaked napkin phone number?
Let me know, Gostin.
User Reviews
Submitted by Jeanneee (user info) at 2007-06-03 00:03:41 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
DON'T LISTEN TO THE VOICES
Submitted by TheUniter (user info) at 2007-06-01 23:21:26 EDT (#)
Ranking: -1
Submitted by Adamdidit2u (user info) at 2007-06-01 11:10:07 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
"Become An Hero."
More people should follow this advice like Mitch did.
P.S. I found ur iPod
Submitted by DeathJester (user info) at 2007-06-01 11:07:34 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
+2 Getting my account back.
Submitted by earth_collapse (user info) at 2007-06-01 10:12:47 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Whoa, cool picture... awful caption.
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2007-06-01 09:30:17 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Amazingly I can read a newspaper.
Submitted by sexualchocolate1984 (user info) at 2007-06-01 07:42:06 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Meh, good picture though.