Border worker disregarded TB warning
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070601/ap_on_re_us/tuberculosis_infection"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070531/capt.9cfbae8761154c90bd484df5e32c4b58.tuberculosis_infection_ny115.jpg?x=130&y=87&sig=Xt0489fBYHLLaQhX.XQc1Q--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="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)" border="0" /></a>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.</p><br clear="all"/>

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