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TB Patient Nabbed On U.S. Border

In medical isolation in South Texas, 100 miles or so from Mexico's border, is a man who embodies one of U.S. health officials' greatest worries: He is the first person to cross and be held in detention while infected with one of the most severe types of drug-resistant tuberculosis known today

Tuberculosis, an ancient, fatal airborne disease, has been treatable for decades with a cocktail of drugs. However, shoddy medical practices world-wide have enabled the bacteria to mutate and, in some cases, become all but untreatable. In recent months The Wall Street Journal has exposed widening TB drug resistance in hot spots like India, and shown that the U.S. is surprisingly unprepared for the growing global problem.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323978104578332461533970412.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_LEFTTopStories

And to think that this person came across our "secure" border with Mexico?

More proof America needs better bio-detection and bio-defense capabilities.

We also need to secure our borders.