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The executive director of the International Television and Film Festival, …were given respirators and told to spray it down with a cleaner," he said. "Apparently, the vehicle has been deemed clean enough" for service.

Hansen said he had been told that the operator of the bus was checked over by the company's physician before being allowed to go home. "I don't have much more information than that," he said. "No one from TriMet has talked to me."

The union president criticized the agency for not being more open about what he called "disease scares" on its vehicles.

About five years ago, he said, a bus driver was diagnosed with whooping cough. "They haven't been forthcoming with information about what really is an ongoing health concern among operators," Hansen said. "We're always in contact with riders, touching hands to give out transfers,