I’ve been following the story of the man with drug resistant tuberculosis for the past few days and it is a very troubling story.

The man wanted to get married in Greece, saw his doctor for something and was told he had TB. He says he was advised not to go on the trip but not told he couldn’t go on the trip.

After he had been on a couple of planes, sitting around dozens of people, he was finally tracked down in Italy by the CDC, who told him he had a very deadly form of TB and to go to the US Embassy or an Italian hospital for treatment and isolation while the CDC worked on getting him back to the States.

He decided on his own if he followed those instructions he would die, so he headed to Prague and hopped a flight to Montreal then drove back into the United States and turned himself in in New York.

Did I mention he was told his passport had been flagged and he was on a no-fly list?

Now everyone is going crazy trying to locate all the passengers he might have infected so they can get a skin test to see if they have TB. His wife doesn’t, and he claims he wasn’t coughing on the flights.

How did this happen? If this guy, who had his passport flagged and was on a no-fly list could so easily re-enter this country or enter any other country, how easy would it be for anyone who has a mind to inject himself with the bubonic plague, ebola virus, superflu or any other disease that could potentially kill millions in a pandemic to get into this or any other country?

Homeland Security doesn’t seem to be living up to its title. It doesn’t just mean watch out for people in turbans praying loudly in an airport anymore. Those are the easy catches.

The other bad thing about this incident? Even though he was doing all of this against the CDC instructions to not do it he never broke a law and has not been arrested. He is in a hospital with federally enforced isolation now, but they’re still looking for those he came in contact with and could have exposed to a deadly form of TB.