Also, I don't think you'll find me smoking any more shisha, or flavored tobacco in water pipes.  I didn't do it all that often anyway, but it's a common way to chill out on a summer night here.  Unfortunately, those water pipes (specifically the water in them, plus the cloth tubes you smoke through) are good TB reservoirs.  Here, most of the upscale places are using plastic disposable tubes now instead of the old-style woven ones.  But I think my shisha-smoking days are done.

The new XDR strain isn't just in South Africa.  It was identified there because they had a large cluster, but apparently they've back-tested lab tests and have found the same strain all around the world already.  Apparently this guy is not the first case in the US, just the first to run around wantonly exposing international airline passengers after his diagnosis.