[lettie]

I would be inclined to agree. Funnily enough health checks for immigrants including HIV and Hepatitis tests were debated in parliament in about 2002 ish and guess what........ The human rights do-gooder lobby said that making immigrants have these tests infringed their human rights and was racism. So therefore these diseases are now costing the NHS millions per year to treat (including TB) because the government were too soft to say 'sod you' to the do-gooders, even though other countries such as the USA, Australia, NZ, China Russia and Saudi do these tests on immigrants as a matter of routine.