Should an employer be required to hire an applicant who has HIV for work that could become bloody in a place where there is poor medical care?...A former Green Beret [John Doe]…sued the State Department and a private security firm, Triple Canopy, because he was pushed out of its training program. He was told the company's government contract requires that employees have no contagious illness…Doe argues that the federal Rehabilitation Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act prohibits discrimination based on disabilities, including HIV…With the hazardous conditions, the danger of bloodshed "and the consequent threat to the safety and health of other individuals, the deployment of John Doe…would pose a direct threat to other individuals (as well as to himself)," Triple Canopy argues.