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.