Yes you read that right, I just heard about it on CNN
TB Patient Andrew Speaker, Father-In-Law Works for CDC. What is even stranger is The Father-in-law Robert Cooksey MD works as Tuberculosis Researchers at The CDC in ATLANTA...
Father-in-law of patient works for CDC on TB
AP
Bob Cooksey said he gave his son-in-law Andrew Speaker "fatherly advice" when he learned he had contracted the disease. Speaker has a rare and dangerous form of tuberculosis that has proved resistant to drugs.
Cooksey said that had he know his daughter was at any risk, he would not have allowed her to travel. He said he did not act in any official capacity with the CDC on the case.
More after the fold...
Ok how the hell did the CDC not know where Andrew Speaker was? Here is a man wondering around the world with a drug resistant form of tuberculosis?
Father-In-Law Makes Statement
"As part of my job, I am regularly tested for TB. I do not have TB, nor have I ever had TB," Cooksey said in a statement. "My son-in-law's TB did not originate from myself or the CDC's labs, which operate under the highest levels of biosecurity."
Forbes
This story just keeps growing... The Father-In-Law
Robert Cooksey is a Microbiologist
Here is a Link that has part of his papers on-
- Chronic hexosamine flux stimulates fatty acid oxidation by activating AMP-activated protein kinase in adipocytes.
- Hexosamines regulate sensitivity of glucose-stimulated insulin secretion in {beta}-cells.
- Hexosamines regulate sensitivity of glucose-stimulated insulin secretion in {beta}-cells.
- Reduced cardiac efficiency and altered substrate metabolism precedes the onset of hyperglycemia and contractile dysfunction in two mouse models of insulin resistance and obesity.
- Novel mycolic acid-containing bacteria in the family Segniliparaceae fam. nov., including the genus Segniliparus gen. nov., with descriptions of Segniliparus rotundus sp. nov. and Segniliparus rugosus sp. nov.
- An outbreak of bacteremias associated with Mycobacterium mucogenicum in a hospital water supply.
- dipocytes with increased hexosamine flux exhibit insulin resistance, increased glucose uptake, and increased synthesis and storage of lipid.
- Mycobacterium cosmeticum sp. nov., a novel rapidly growing species isolated from a cosmetic infection and from a nail salon.
- Mycobacterium goodii infections associated with surgical implants at Colorado hospital.
- Mycobacterium goodii infections associated with surgical implants at Colorado hospital.
Here is the One I Care About...
Screening and characterization of mutations in isoniazid-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates obtained in Brazil.
We investigated mutations in the genes katG, inhA (regulatory and structural regions), and kasA and the oxyR-ahpC intergenic region of 97 isoniazid (INH)-resistant and 60 INH-susceptible Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates obtained in two states in Brazil: São Paulo and Paraná. PCR-single-strand conformational polymorphism (PCR-SSCP) was evaluated for screening mutations in regions of prevalence, including codons 315 and 463 of katG, the regulatory region and codons 16 and 94 of inhA, kasA, and the oxyR-ahpC intergenic region. DNA sequencing of PCR amplicons was performed for all isolates with altered PCR-SSCP profiles. Mutations in katG were found in 83 (85.6%) of the 97 INH-resistant isolates, including mutations in codon 315 that occurred in 60 (61.9%) of the INH-resistant isolates and 23 previously unreported katG mutations. Mutations in the inhA promoter region occurred in 25 (25.8%) of the INH-resistant isolates; 6.2% of the isolates had inhA structural gene mutations, and 10.3% had mutations in the oxyR- ahpC intergenic region (one, nucleotide - 48, previously unreported). Polymorphisms in the kasA gene occurred in both INH-resistant and INH- susceptible isolates. The most frequent polymorphism encoded a G(269)A substitution. Although KatG(315) substitutions are predominant, novel mutations also appear to be responsible for INH resistance in the two states in Brazil. Since ca. 90.7% of the INH-resistant isolates had mutations identified by SSCP electrophoresis, this method may be a useful genotypic screen for INH resistance.
Ok I’m going to be honest here I have NO IDEA what that Means! But I Don't Like it....
Atlantan quarantined with deadly TB strain
CDC issues rare isolation order; air passengers warned
CDC officials are investigating how the man became infected with XDR TB. He said the agency thinks he may have gotten it while he was traveling in Asia doing fund-raising work for hospitals.
Thanks HiBob for the link!
He is a Atlanta personal injury lawyer?
This Story is Stranger than Fiction!