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Because we get a lot of travelers through our country who may otherwise spread TB here if we made no effort to control it outside of the country, and it would be a huge public health problem for us despite the fact that treatment for it is readily available in our country.

If we're going to do this we should probably institute some kind of health screening during the immigration process at entry points.

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> Because we get a lot of travelers through our country who may otherwise spread TB here if we made no effort to control it outside of the country

A dozen of vaccines and a proof (from the doctors certified by the US officials) that you have no contagious diseases (including TB) is a prerequisite to get any US visa. The only way to bring TB to the US, I presume, is to jump over the fence at the border.

Or to contract it on your way to the US through one of the many stops you will make along the way.

It's the same rationale we used for the Iraq War - fight the terrorists there so we don't have to fight them here. People understand that intuitively. But when it's framed as helping people, there's a big question mark as to the utility.

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