A man with a highly contagious form of tuberculosis was allowed to repeatedly enter the United States via the Mexican border and board dozens of flights after U.S. agencies failed to conduct adequate border inspections, the Government Accountability Office told the Washington Times.
Several agencies, including Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Health and Human Services, failed to take the appropriate measures for dealing with contagious diseases, the Times reported.
Amado Isidro Armendariz Amaya, a resident of Juarez, Mexico, crossed the border more than 76 times after U.S. officials first identified him as a public health threat in April 2007.
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