TB, Tuberculosis; flight infection warning
BBC NEWS Americas US in TB flight infection warning
"US health officials have quarantined a man who may have exposed passengers on board two trans-Atlantic flights to a dangerous form of tuberculosis."
A more critical issue than you might think. I would suggest a laxity on the part of FAA and US Public Health in not regulating air quality for air passenger flights. There has been a trade off favoring deregulation over cost of manufacture, and the cost of operating adequate air conditioning aboard airliners. HEPA Filters and electronic air filtering are a readily available technology which would protect passengers and provide some element of air sanitation. State Public Health laws are negated by interstate over-flights and the federal bureaucracy puts privitization above all else.
Maybe this will be a wake-up call that there just might be a place for privitization and a place for public subsidy. Privitization has been such a hidden tax /revenue source for polititian's favorite boon-doggle that the idea has gone way too far. Public Health has been an even more sleepy segment than Public Health officials in general.
Maybe I'm nuts, but it just seems incompetent not to exercise plain common sense in regulating the airlines. There needs to be a minimum personal space for every passenger and a minimum volume of air for that passenger to breath without rebreathing all the other passenger's high milage, used air. Come fly with me. My old Cessna 180 has the best ventilation of them all, great, except when it rains.
Suggested reading: Mountains Beyond Mountains: About Dr. Paul Farmer, Tuberculosis and Public Health; a book by Tracy Kidder
"US health officials have quarantined a man who may have exposed passengers on board two trans-Atlantic flights to a dangerous form of tuberculosis."
A more critical issue than you might think. I would suggest a laxity on the part of FAA and US Public Health in not regulating air quality for air passenger flights. There has been a trade off favoring deregulation over cost of manufacture, and the cost of operating adequate air conditioning aboard airliners. HEPA Filters and electronic air filtering are a readily available technology which would protect passengers and provide some element of air sanitation. State Public Health laws are negated by interstate over-flights and the federal bureaucracy puts privitization above all else.
Maybe this will be a wake-up call that there just might be a place for privitization and a place for public subsidy. Privitization has been such a hidden tax /revenue source for polititian's favorite boon-doggle that the idea has gone way too far. Public Health has been an even more sleepy segment than Public Health officials in general.
Maybe I'm nuts, but it just seems incompetent not to exercise plain common sense in regulating the airlines. There needs to be a minimum personal space for every passenger and a minimum volume of air for that passenger to breath without rebreathing all the other passenger's high milage, used air. Come fly with me. My old Cessna 180 has the best ventilation of them all, great, except when it rains.
Suggested reading: Mountains Beyond Mountains: About Dr. Paul Farmer, Tuberculosis and Public Health; a book by Tracy Kidder
posted by Clancy Hughes | 5/29/2007 06:14:00 PM
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