national public radio on tuesday spoke to the head of the cdc.
go here to hear the interview:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10518734cdc did try to contact him when they found out the strain - but he was already gone and traveling - most irresponsible, but he knew he was facing 18 months of "cutting edge" medicine - in quarantine - and a high mortality rate.
cdc tried to get him home - and would have flown him home @ their expense - but it was memorial day weekend. we later find out that he was back in the us on may 24, before the big weekend - the director may have been given bad info.
an interesting interview.
there have been almost 50 of similar tb cases. as we haven't heard much about them - maybe this guy has some really bad stuff. why else the hubbub?
what about the civil liberties vs "national security" aspect of this? i think they were exercising great caution before they locked him up.