Ann has been on TV a lot of late promoting her new book, Adios, America, and has pointed out any number of times it is extremely difficult to get racial and nationality statistics on who it is that is currently in our prisons. The feds keeps such data on practically everything else but somehow fail to do so in this one area.

That is an example of a how the feds hide certain information on the macro level. This story is about them doing the same thing but on the micro level.

"Ann Coulter, the 10-time New York Times bestselling author who just came out with a new book, Adios America, about immigration, is ripping President Barack Obama’s National Institute of Health (NIH) for hiding the identity and immigration status of a foreigner from India who brought extremely drug-resistant tuberculosis into the United States.

“I see why they won’t give out her name—at least until the U.S. taxpayer is forced to pay for her nearly half-million dollar treatment,” Coulter said in an email late Monday. “If we’re paying, we get her name. But why won’t the government tell us if she’s an immigrant—i.e. whether government policy brought a drug resistant disease to our shores? Could they at least tell us if she was transporting 12-year-old sex slaves to America, like that other model Indian immigrant, Lakireddy Bali Reddy?”

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Coulter’s reaction to the Obama administration’s health authorities hiding the identity of the foreigner from India—whose immigration status is unknown—comes after an NBC News report that that foreigner brought into the United States a severe case of drug resistant tuberculosis.

“A female patient with an extremely hard-to-treat form of tuberculosis is being treated at the National Institutes of Health outside Washington D.C., and federal and state officials are now tracking down hundreds of people who may have been in contact with her,” NBC News’ Maggie Fox wrote. “The woman traveled to at least three states before she sought treatment from a U.S. doctor. While TB is not easily caught by casual contact, extensively drug resistant (XDR) TB is so dangerous that health officials will have to make a concerted effort to warn anyone who may be at risk.”

“The patient was transferred to the NIH via special air and ground ambulances,” the NIH, the official federal government health facility just outside Washington, D.C., told NBC. “The patient is staying in an isolation room in the NIH Clinical Center specifically designed for handling patients with respiratory infections, including XDR-TB. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the NIH, is providing care and treatment for the patient in connection with an existing NIH clinical protocol for treating TB, including XDR forms. NIAID has treated other XDR-TB patients in the past under this protocol,”

With this strain deadly tuberculosis, NBC News noted, only about a third to half of cases can be cured.

It wasn’t until later in the story that NBC News—and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—revealed the person afflicted was a foreigner from India"

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/...e-tuberculosis/