Mayor casts doubt on TB patient's Greek wedding

[deminks]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/conditions/06/01/tb.flight/index.html?section=cnn_latest

DENVER, Colorado (CNN) -- An Atlanta tuberculosis patient who may have defied health officials' warnings by going on a wedding trip to Europe appears not to have gotten married, a Greek official said Friday, but a friend had an explanation.

Mayor Angelos Roussos of Santorini, Greece, said a clerk from the municipality office informed him that Andrew Speaker and his fiancee, Sarah Cooksey, did not have the necessary paperwork for a civil marriage.

"He made no previous contact with the town hall about arranging a civil marriage," Roussos said. "So the wedding never happened. He stayed instead at a hotel for two days, the Majestic Hotel, before setting back for the United States. It was his first time here."

Roussos said he didn't talk with Speaker.

Greg Fansler, Speaker's former roommate, said there were documentation problems with the Greek authorities but that the couple held a wedding ceremony anyway and planned to take care of those problems when they returned to the United States.

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Something is very very wrong about this case. I can't quite grasp it yet, but it smells to high heaven.

[in_cog_ni_to]

1. I agree. There's much. much more to this that we don't know.

and it's not going to be good. Something is going on.

[Autumn Colors]

2. Sounds like a movie plot...

Also.... my, wouldn't all those brand-spankin' new Halliburton built "immigration detention camps" serve as lovely "quarantine" centers for whoever the government deems should be "quarantined" ... ?

[MadAnne]

3. Doesn't his father in law work

for the CDC?

[deminks]

4. Yes, he does, in the TB section of all places. And Welcome to DU!

It is a very curious case.

[MadAnne]

5. Thanks. n/t

[Kagemusha]

7. Oops. Deleting

Misread and misposted, no biggie. Enjoy your stay on DU.

[silverlib]

6. Welcome MadAnne!

Glad to have you as a new member of a great group!

[az chela]

8. another way for homeland security to monitor us!!!!!!!!!

They will probably go back to the we need a chip implant for our medical history that will have all our info and a tracking device.They have been trying to do that for years

[deminks]

9. Kick once for the morning. nt

[donsu]

10. as Judge Judy says "if it doesn't make sense, it isn't true"

I agree, dots are not connecting

[rug]

11. He didn't have His Big Fat Basillic Wedding?