Quarantined Air Traveler: ‘I Didn’t Want to Put Anybody at Risk’
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 05.30.07 | 3:31 PM ET
The quarantined man infected with a particularly dangerous form of tuberculosis told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that he “didn’t want to put anybody at risk” by flying to Europe for his wedding and honeymoon and returning to the U.S. for treatment. According to the newspaper, “He questioned why nobody told him to cancel his wedding before he left Atlanta—and why the CDC waited until he was on his honeymoon in Rome to order him into isolation.” The man, who is from the Atlanta area and says he has no symptoms, told the newspaper: “I’m a very well-educated, successful, intelligent person. This is insane to me that I have an armed guard outside my door when I’ve cooperated with everything other than the whole solitary confinement in Italy thing.”
Meanwhile, passengers aboard the May 12 Paris-bound Air France flight carrying the man have complained that the CDC has been less than helpful in responding to inquiries.
“Their most urgent question—where was the man sitting onboard the plane—has gone unanswered,” the paper reports.
That information is now available. From today’s New York Times: “According to investigators, the man apparently sat in row 51 on the Air France flight, and near row 12 on the return flight to North America.”
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Roller 05.31.07 | 9:39 AM ET
Nobody like to be guilty. Everyone thinks he is innocent
Ruby 06.01.07 | 4:03 AM ET
This guy is a selfish, thoughtless jerk - that only thought of himself and want he wanted…no concern that he put other people and children at risk of TB.
Julia Zielinski 06.01.07 | 12:55 PM ET
The man is a dirty, stinking rotten, blood sucking lawyer, does it really surprise anyone that he would put himself above everyone else?
cheap airfares advocate 06.10.07 | 1:52 PM ET
Air travellers should have the right ethics not to endangered their fellow passengers, not when you are flying in an enclosed space with hundreds of passengers thousands of feet in the sky with no exit.
The CDC should have acted sooner though it’s better late than never.