Brad Pitt’s Sexy Smirk

Man With Rare TB Detained, Isolated
He Ignored Orders, Traveled Extensively

By David Brown
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, May 30, 2007; A03

The federal government last week detained and quarantined an Atlanta man who had spent nearly two weeks traveling in the United States, Canada and Europe with “extensively drug-resistant” tuberculosis, a rare and often fatal form of the infection, officials said yesterday.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention imposed an “order of isolation” on Friday after catching up with the man, who had flown into Montreal the day before and then driven to New York City. He was flown in a government plane on Memorial Day to Atlanta, where he is now undergoing treatment.

Although states occasionally use their authority to forcibly detain and treat patients with infections, this was the first time since 1963 the federal government has done so. The last case involved suspected importation of smallpox, a disease eradicated in the 1970s.

The CDC and the two airlines that transported the man twice across the Atlantic are laboriously trying to learn who had close, prolonged contact with him during the trip. Those people will then be contacted by local health departments — potentially dozens of them on two continents.

“We don’t think, from past scientific investigation, that their risk is high. But we want to offer them the chance to be tested,” CDC Director Julie L. Gerberding said yesterday afternoon in a news briefing.

Although many details of the patient’s recent activities were unknown or were not being disclosed yesterday, officials said the man had recently been diagnosed with TB and knew he should not travel when he left the United States on May 12.

After testing revealed his tuberculosis was extensively drug-resistant, he was contacted in Europe by health authorities and told not to take a commercial flight home — advice he ignored.

He flew from Atlanta to Paris on May 12 on Air France Flight 385, arriving the next day. He flew back from Europe on May 24 aboard Czech Airlines Flight 0104, which departed from Prague. That flight arrived the same day in Montreal. He left Montreal in a rented car and drove to the United States, entering at Champlain, N.Y. The man’s wife was with him in New York and accompanied him in the CDC plane to Atlanta. Where she met him — or whether she traveled to Europe with him — was unclear yesterday.

Officials did not say how many other countries he visited in Europe.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/29/AR2007052901182_pf.html

# 26

Brad flew on a private plane.

I’ve seen some black & white stills of the film shoot. Really beautiful and making it seem more like the period piece that it is.

I’ll see if I can post the link a little later.

Jen’s $5million tell all deal

http://www.starmagazine.com/

#32 Tell All,Anyone who really belives that is true is just plain stupid!P.S didn’t Life and Style run that same fake story in 2006?

He’s not in Montreal for eight days. He’s apparently leaving tonight as soon as the film wraps.

#33 Raichill,A hot middle aged!Why is everyone acting like you just realized Brad is 43?Some of you sound really superficial!

He looks old

Splash has the video of brad filming yesterday

http://www.jossip.com/gossip/peter-brandt/

#46 Do you really beleive james spoke with a a British tabloid?Damm,I guess some people will believe anything.

normans mom,b!tch!that small **** produces perfect lookz!now,gimme that small ****!pothead!