What maladies get you on the CDC no fly list?
Feb 25, 2014, 8:54 am
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What maladies get you on the CDC no fly list?
http://www.usatoday.com/story/travel...-epic/5208359/
From today's McPaper online:
"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also keeps a list that TSA checks of people not permitted on aircraft because of health concerns."
Active TB, coodies?
From today's McPaper online:
"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also keeps a list that TSA checks of people not permitted on aircraft because of health concerns."
Active TB, coodies?
Feb 26, 2014, 7:27 am
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How do you get from checking a public health list generated by the CDC to TSA practicing medicine? Personally I didn't know, or should say don't know, that the CDC maintains and publishes a list of individuals with certain diseases but I suppose that's possible. Considering how flakey the disease reporting system is I can't imagine it's a very accurate or maybe even current list but I'd assume it's not simply something like having the flu and would have to be something like TB.
Feb 26, 2014, 8:09 am
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Interesting. This is from when they first started the list, and at the time only some folks with TB were on it.
http://scienceblogs.com/effectmeasur...s-no-fly-list/
http://scienceblogs.com/effectmeasur...s-no-fly-list/
Feb 26, 2014, 10:46 am
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A good friend of mine works for the CDC and I asked him about this list, he said it is those with serious communicable diseases and the names are supposed to be marked in a way to ensure that they are not viewed as would be bad actors, but rather people who should not fly until they are well.
In other words in theory the TSA is supposed to know that they are on the No-Fly list for health issues and not for nefarious reasons. Though I HIGHLY doubt the TSA is able to understand such distinctions and furthermore capably maintain the list in such a fashion to ensure that those innocent people who happen to get sick are not treated as "baddies".
Dan
In other words in theory the TSA is supposed to know that they are on the No-Fly list for health issues and not for nefarious reasons. Though I HIGHLY doubt the TSA is able to understand such distinctions and furthermore capably maintain the list in such a fashion to ensure that those innocent people who happen to get sick are not treated as "baddies".
Dan
Feb 26, 2014, 11:33 am
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Connecting the Dots....
From the CDC web site:
From: The CFR allowing the CDC to "apprehend" and "detain" us:
This adds a new dimension to the standard question to a TSA clerk: "Am I being detained?"
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Under section 361 of the Public Health Service Act (42 USC § 264), the CDC Director may apprehend, detain, examine, or conditionally release persons believed to be carrying certain communicable diseases that are specified in an executive order of the president. This list of diseases currently includes cholera, diphtheria, infectious tuberculosis, plague, smallpox, yellow fever, viral hemorrhagic fevers (Lassa, Marburg, Ebola, Crimean-Congo, South American, and others not yet isolated or named), severe acute respiratory syndrome, and influenza caused by novel or reemergent influenza viruses that are causing, or have the potential to cause, a pandemic (executive orders 13295, April 4, 2003, and 13375, April 1, 2005).
(d) Apprehension and examination of persons reasonably believed to be infected:
(1) Regulations prescribed under this section may provide for the apprehension and examination of any individual reasonably believed to be infected with a communicable disease in a qualifying stage and
(A) to be moving or about to move from a State to another State; or
(B) to be a probable source of infection to individuals who, while infected with such disease in a qualifying stage, will be moving from a State to another State.
Such regulations may provide that if upon examination any such individual is found to be infected, he may be detained for such time and in such manner as may be reasonably necessary. For purposes of this subsection, the term “State” includes, in addition to the several States, only the District of Columbia.
(1) Regulations prescribed under this section may provide for the apprehension and examination of any individual reasonably believed to be infected with a communicable disease in a qualifying stage and
(A) to be moving or about to move from a State to another State; or
(B) to be a probable source of infection to individuals who, while infected with such disease in a qualifying stage, will be moving from a State to another State.
Such regulations may provide that if upon examination any such individual is found to be infected, he may be detained for such time and in such manner as may be reasonably necessary. For purposes of this subsection, the term “State” includes, in addition to the several States, only the District of Columbia.
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