DadsCenter.org Blog

TB, Bird flu pandemic, and a lawyer from Atlanta

What do these three topics have in mind?  Well, the lawyer from Atlanta who circumvented health experts and national governments to sneak himself back into the country whilst allegedly infected with a drug-resistant form of TB shows that for all the preparation and prevention for a bird flu pandemic, and even that crazy movie ABC did last fall to scare the world about the potential of a pandemic from bird-flu, may not be as far-flung as some of the naysayers thought.

How many thousands of Americans travel to Asia and the Mid-East every day and return?  What if one of them actually thought he had been exposed to bird-flu once he’d been in another country and thought it was in HIS best interest to get back to America where the treatment would be better, all the while exposing innocent countless people to the disease?   This recent effort to stop this guy from returning home and instead going into immediate quarantine obviously didn’t work.

Maybe if the Congress actually wanted to hold some meaningful hearings, they’d bring this guy’s lawyer, his wife, and those who were trying to keep him out of the country before it and ask how something like this happened and what’s going to be done to avoid potential health breaches like this from happening again in the future?  Now that would actually be productive and protect the interest of all Americans and our neighbors abroad.

Bird Flu Latests Deaths in Cambodia and Egypt

As a father, I continue to be concerned with this, even though it remains half a world away.  If it ever begins to go human to human, we’re going to have a massive problem on our hands.  Basic survival skills kind of stuff.  Today’s reports include deaths in Cambodia and Egypt.