How they get it. Listening to your phone calls without a judge's warrant is illegal if you're a U.S. citizen. But police don't need a warrant â which requires showing probable cause of a crime â to get just the numbers you called and when you called them, as well as incoming calls, from phone carriers.ow they get it. Listening to your phone calls without a judge's warrant is illegal if you're a U.S. citizen. But police don't need a warrant â which requires showing probable cause of a crime â to get just the numbers you called and when you called them, as well as incoming calls, from phone carriers.
1 MAC is not contagious. 2  MAC lung disease seen in HIV negative (non-AIDS) patients is a chronic lung infection and early-on is often misdiagnosed as chronic bronchitis or recurrent pneumonia. 3  MAC Lung Disease is acquired from the environment (soil, air, natural waters, tap water, etc.). The average age of patients with MAC lung disease in men is 55 years and 67 years in women. 2  Men are more likely to have cavitary MAC (holes in their lungs). 3  Women are more likely to have non-cavitary, nodular MAC. 4  Diagnosis of MAC lung disease usually requires:
Organisms of the Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) are ubiquitous in the environment. 1-3 M. avium is the etiologic agent in >95% of patients with AIDS who acquire disseminated MAC disease. 1,4-9 An estimated 7% to 12% of adults have been previously infected with MAC, although rates of disease vary in different geographic locations. 1,5,8,9 Although epidemiologic associations have been identified, no environmental exposure or behavior has been consistently linked to subsequent ...