American TB threat more real than Lou Dobbs' Mexi-Leprosy Menace

BB reader David says,

Couldn't help but enjoy the irony of these two stories breaking today. One (Link) discusses how CNN's Lou Dobbs says Mexican immigrants are causing increased leprosy in the US (the data is widely considered to be inaccurate). In the other, an American traveling abroad with a rare strain of TB has possibly infected people in Europe and Canada (Link).

Update: Dobbs responds to the New York Times piece, and CNN issues a statement defending him: Link 1, Link 2, Link 3, Link 4. Gawker takes a second look at the response, and the disputed data at the heart of this controversy, here.