Gibson on "TB Man story": Usually it's someone "from the third
 
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 14:23:03 -0400


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<p><b>Gibson on "TB Man story": Usually it's someone "from the third world" or
who contracted "ooga booga fever" in "some godforsaken hellhole" </b></p>
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<p>On the May 31 edition of Fox News&#39; <i>The Big Story</i>, host John Gibson said he
was "mesmerized" by what he called "[t]he TB Man story"
-- the recent <a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?src=clip200706010003&http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/31/health/31cnd-tb.html?ex=1338264000&amp;en=53c3a63236b3b83c&amp;ei=5090&amp;partner=rssuserland&amp;emc=rss">news</a> that American attorney
Andrew Speaker traveled by airline while infected with antibiotic-resistant
tuberculosis. Gibson stated: "It seems every time a story pops up about
somebody who has suddenly contracted some strange or incurable disease,
it&#39;s somebody who is either from the third world, or was traveling
through some godforsaken hellhole, and somehow managed to contract ooga booga
fever." </p>

<p>From the May 31 edition of Fox
News&#39; <i>The Big Story with John Gibson</i>:
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<p>GIBSON:
Now "My Word." The TB Man story has me completely mesmerized.
I&#39;ve been doing this for a few years. It seems every time a story pops up
about somebody who has suddenly contracted some strange or incurable disease, <b>it&#39;s somebody who is either from the third
world, or was traveling through some godforsaken hellhole, and somehow managed
to contract ooga booga fever.</b> </p>

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I got dengue fever in Mogadishu,
 Somalia, just
for instance. You tend not to get dengue fever in Los
 Angeles or Jersey City,
I believe. So when this TB story broke about the guy flying halfway around the
world with a super-serious
drug-resistant strain of TB, I thought it would be
the usual scenario. The guy&#39;s in the U.S., he&#39;s coughing, he knows he&#39;s
got TB, but doesn&#39;t realize he&#39;s got incurable TB, gets on the planes. Headed
to Europe, to a must-attend wedding, informed there that he has a bad disease,
sneaks back into the U.S. because he knows that&#39;s where the best health care
is. That&#39;s the narrative you expect the story to take.  </p></blockquote><table width="100%" style="background: #e8e8e8; 
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