That'll teach Ray

Helen Kennedy has an article in the New York Daily News about poor Ray Nagin, who can't catch a break:

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and his wife were being held in quarantine by the Chinese government Sunday. The mayor, his wife, Seletha, and a bodyguard were put on ice in Shanghai after flying in on a plane carrying a passenger who had symptoms of the new swine flu. People sitting near that passenger were quarantined. Mayoral spokeswoman Ceeon Quiett said all three were feeling fine and being treated with the "utmost courtesy by Chinese officials".
Nagin became a national figure in 2005 when most of his city was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. He was on a ten-day economic development trip to China and Australia, trying to lure businesses to the Crescent City. His schedule, which included a speech and a panel discussion on climate change in Sydney, may now change, Quiett said.
Shanghai has ten confirmed cases of swine flu, and authorities are taking extreme precautions. It was not clear where the Nagins were, but the Chinese government has been putting travelers it wants to quarantine in a hotel in Lingang Harbor City, near Shanghai, for a week. In the hotel, nurses in biohazard suits take the guests' temperature twice a day, waiting for them to get sick.

Rico says the answer is to not travel, particularly by air...