Border inspector 'ignored TB-patient alert'

A globetrotting Atlanta lawyer with a dangerous strain of tuberculosis was allowed back into the US by a border inspector who disregarded a computer warning to stop him and don protective gear, officials said.

The unidentified inspector, who has been removed from border duty, explained that he was no doctor but that the infected man seemed perfectly healthy and that he thought the warning was merely “discretionary”, officials briefed on the case said.