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Border worker disregarded TB warning (AP)

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Border worker disregarded TB warning (AP)

This 2005 photo made available Thursday, May 31, 2007 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows Dr. Robert Cooksey, a CDC microbiologist specializing in the spread of tuberculosis and other bacteria. Cooksey is the father-in-law of Andrew Speaker, the honeymooner quarantined May 25 with a dangerous strain of tuberculosis. In a statement issued through the CDC, Cooksey said that neither he nor his CDC laboratory was the source of his son-in-law's TB.  (AP Photo/CDC, James Gathany)AP - A globe-trotting Atlanta lawyer with a dangerous strain of tuberculosis was allowed back into the U.S. by a border inspector who d! isregarded a computer warning to stop him and don protective gear, officials said Thursday. The inspector has been removed from border duty.

URL: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070601/ap_on_he_me/tuberculosis_infection


 

 


One Response to “Border worker disregarded TB warning (AP)”

  1. alex Says:

    Sure, adding to my Bookmarks ;)

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