Should we be doing more to actively screen people at U.S. airports for influenza and other resp illnesses?
549942
Yeah!! My friend came from Miami last week and brought back the cold. Y'all could keep your nasty diseases and stop spreading it to the rest of the world.
685915
Absolutely! They don't get checked for diseases before they slither into the USA and they bring in Tuberculosis, meningitis, HIV/AIDS, and lord knows what else. They have litters of bambinos so they can get more welfare. They have already caused the closing of hundreds of hospitals because they wouldn't pay their bills and when all those filthy diseases start spreading there won't be hospitals enough to care for the people who need the medical care. YEAH, I'd say they pose an exponentially increasing burden on the US health care system (and all other 'systems')\n\nHealth professionals have written the following to explain how their hands were tied when forced to treat illegals for minor medical problems in hospital ER's and the impact it made on the hospitals:\nhttp://jpands.org/vol10no1/cosman.pdf#se...
964499
you might want to try center of disease control ( CDC ) in Atlanta or Journal of Medicine. They should have what you need.
463286
Because of patient confidentiality...Drug screens along with HIV test or any other test done by employees should be held in the strictist confidence by their employees.
910952
no idea, maybe because we spend more time inside with each other, the sick people in our family....sound good to you?\nall the sneezing and touching, yuk....!
485155
Well, if you don't know the person and had no health checks you will most definitely contract some sort of disease.....AIDS for one.  Maybe you should think twice in doing it if you are not absolutely sure about that persons health history.
605344
I am from the UK and travel extensively with my job.\nThree years ago, I contracted full-blown TB and was very ill for 18 months.\nAfter undergoing extensive treatment on a monthly basis, I was cleared.\nMy consultant told me that cases in the UK had risen "dramatically" in the previous two years.\nHe asked me about travel and said "off the record" that it was due to the amount of time I spent hanging around airports because of new security measures.\nOur laws are very strict about contagious diseases and I was kept in quarantine for two weeks.\nAll my family. close friends and daily work colleagues had to go for a scan. Fortunately, they were all clear.\nBut I do agree with you. Not just with illegal immigrants. I think that all international travellers should undergo a scan before departure.\nIt is all down to time and money!
413440
Its for your safety. There are a lot of sick people out there, and its basically like talking to a stranger.
496726
Try the link below.  You can also search Google using "standard practices in the hospitals for staff and patients to prevent infection".  You will get this link as well as some specifically geared towards flu protection.
712825
Influenza is actually an airborne disease. If someone who already has it, even if they don't know it yet, they can spread the virus. If they cough, sneeze, etc there is a large area of respiratory droplets that are produced but even normal face to face conversation can spread the droplets when the infected person sneezes.  Infected people should wear a mask if they have to be near healthy people, anyone in contact with infected people should wash their hands before and after contact.\nI believe the previous answer is related more to "the stomach flu" which is spread through body fluids such as saliva.
309598
I think they would have to. That pic is probably the CDC not taking any chances, but if someone showed up with it, they couldn't keep doctors and hospitals quiet. I hate to say it, but the US has enough on its plate now not having to deal with Bird Flu.
881798
I used to work in ER registration and was exposed to everything.  My only answer was maybe we built up an immunity to some diseases, or we just were to work conscious to get sick.  The doctors do get sick, but they also have quicker access to treatment than the average person does.  And they also have   samples of the latest, most effective  meds given out by medical sales people.
917046
Yes and no.  I do better when I am too sick to care....to sick to worry.  Some try a little alcohol for the anti-depressant properties.  The emphasis is on the word little.  Drunkenness doesn't help on tests.\nThe best thing to do is to know that you are prepared.  Do not doubt yourself.  It's an attitude thing.  If you doubt yourself, that is when anxiety creeps in.  The other methods only mask the symptoms without treating the problem.
214557
Unless you have known allergies to prior vaccines, yes.  Anyone who comes in contact with alot of people - especially in the health care setting should.
91244
I'm Canadian, it's only a matter of time till the virus is found here and it mutates into our worst fears.\n\nI have drilled my kids to wash their hands often. I know they should be doing that anyway, but kids are kids. Now I stess it so by the time the flu hit, hopefully it has become habit.\nI know this is no sure fire solution, but every bit helps.
458775
Trust me, you'd know. Those needles are such a large gauge, there's no way you could confuse them for a flu booster. This is the kind of administration that would impelement that kind of project in plain site of the media and public, because they know full well no one will go against them for fear of being labled an America-hating terrorist-loving traitor.
125155
You might look at this page by the cdc