tuberculosis

When health officials here confirmed that five of the several hundred Tibetan refugee claimants who recently crossed the border from the United States into Ontario carry a strain of tuberculosis, immigration border guards began threatening to walk off the job.
"The officers are aware that certain strains of TB are resistant to drugs; they also know that it can be spread by a cough or sneeze," said one official. The would-be refugees reportedly came via India and Hong Kong.
Immigration and health officials suspect that the actual numbers of those with active TB may be higher because not all 400 Tibetans who have sought asylum since the last 10 months have had medical tests. Immigration officials also know that hundreds of Tibetans in a Buffalo, New York, shelter have not had medical checkup. These men and wo...