"I feel awful," he said, speaking through a mask from his hospital room in Denver, Colorado. "I've lived in this state of constant fear and anxiety for a week now, and to think that some else now is feeling that, I wouldn't want anyone to feel that way.

"I don't expect those people to ever forgive me. I just hope they understand that I truly never meant them any harm."

Oh really? The only possible excuse would be not knowing you were infected prior to the traveling. But since you both did know *and* took extraordinary measures to avoid detection by border security, all the above sounds like a giant pack of lies.

You can't willfully endanger others and then say you didn't mean them any harm. At the very least, you didn't give two shits one way or another.

I'm almost completely unsympathetic to his plight.

U.S. border security scrutinized after TB patient slips in - CNN.com