Border agent allowed TB patient in U.S. (AP)

Author: Yahoo! News: Health News
30.05.2007

This undated photo obtained from the website of The Speaker Law Firm, PC, shows Andrew Speaker, a 31-year-old personal injury attorney who practices law with his father in Atlanta. Speaker was identified on Thursday, May 31, 2007, as the tuberculosis patient under the first federal quarantine since 1963. (AP Photo/The Speaker Law Firm, PC)AP - A globe-trotting Atlanta lawyer with a dangerous strain of tuberculosis was allowed back into the U.S. by a border inspector who disregarded a computer warning to stop him and don protective gear, officials said Thursday. The inspector has been removed from border duty.



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