To my knowledge, the flesh-eating kinds of infections are not on the increase. People want to find a connection, but often, even when you look there's no connection.

For every hospitalization, it's certainly expected that there's a bunch of people out there who've gotten influenza, but exactly what that multiplier is, I don't think anyone knows.

Often, things happen in clusters that have no explanation except a chance occurrence. People like to blame it on radio waves or something. It's a natural human tendency to want to connect the dots, but most of the time there are not connections.

The stories are very scary and very unsettling.

You don't want to let bacteria set up shop and invade.

People are flying, but 33 percent of them are flying from somewhere else. We need to work with Northwest to be more competitive in this market and retain passengers out of this airport.