Originally Posted by
flyinbob
The question I have is how long the germ lives outside the human body. The only place the TSA would have contacted the passenger is IAD, but then depending on how many others they touched next and how long the germ can survive on human skin or luggage it could have gone to all points UA goes from IAD.
If I read the story right, they would not have been screened at IAD, it sounds like they landed at IAD, stayed there a few days (so they would have left the airport) and checked into BWI two days later. Their only interaction with the TSA would be at BWI if my assumption is correct.
Authorities said Saturday that a New Mexico woman later confirmed to have measles arrived at Washington Dulles International Airport late in the afternoon of Feb. 20. Two days later, the measles-infected traveler departed from BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport near Baltimore on an evening flight to Denver, Colo., and then on to Albuquerque, N.M.
She was a 27year old US resident and not vaccinated, it's been strangely quite from the antivaccination groups the last few days.