GLASGOW health chiefs are desperately trying to trace anyone who had contact with a man suffering a drug-resistant form of TB.
The man, from overseas, is being treated in an isolation ward in the city’s Gartnavel Hospital.
It’s thought to be the first-ever Scottish case of XDRTB, an extreme strain of the disease.
It is prevalent in other parts of the world, including Africa, but this is the first case in the UK for five years.
Reports today said the man was a Somalian in his 30s, who was screened for infectious diseases when he arrived at Heathrow Airport last November seeking political asylum.
An X-ray revealed TB scars on his lungs, but the disease was not active and after an immigration interview he was allowed to travel to Scotland.
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1 fatcat88 // Aug 7, 2008 at 6:54 pm
Third world immigration on a huge uncontrolled scale must be stopped and reversed or the country will become the worlds biggest zoo, this article proves this again.
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