Webloggin’ is reporting on a Mexican national, Amado Isidro Armendariz Amaya, who has crossed the border to and from the United States 76 times who has a drug resistant form of tuberculosis.
A Mexican national infected with a highly contagious form of tuberculosis crossed the U.S. border 76 times and took multiple domestic flights in the last year, according to Customs and Border Protection interviews and documents obtained by The Washington Times.
The Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency was warned by health officials on April 16 that the frequent traveler was infected, but it took the Homeland Security officials more than six weeks to issue a May 31 alert to warn its own border inspectors, according to Homeland Security sources who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retribution. Homeland Security took one more week to tell its own Transportation Security Agency.
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR) is a highly contagious illness and also resistant to the two most commonly used drugs to treat TB. [source]
Apparently, part of the delay in reporting this was a result of the walking petri dish was using aliases when crossing the border. Okay. Whatever.
What I think is that it was a top of the news story when Andrew Speaker traveled across the Atlantic with a suspected case of TB, but Amado Isidro Armendariz Amaya can cross the border 76 times under alias with an especially resistant strain of the disease and its a foot note in the news at all.
There are just so many ways that our political correctness is going to be the end of us all.
Read more about this form of TB at Webloggin’.
See also Michelle Malkin
