On Wednesday, The Sun published an investigation saying that Romanians coming to the UK starting 2014, when the "doors will open" will infect the British with a deadly TB superbug. Jonathan Still, the TB expert quoted by the tabloid, explained in an interview for HotNews.ro that everything he said was taken out of context and that it is very "frustrating" and "not OK" that they turned a public health problem into an anti-Romanians thing, given that Romanians aren't the ones infecting everybody with TB.

An American citizen, Stillo is a doctoral candidate in medical Anthropology at City University of New York Graduate Center (not a British researcher) and has been researching TB in Romania for the past 7 years. He says Romania is his second home. "This article was terrible. I got my first "hate e-mail" today from a stranger demanding I apologize to all of the healthy Romanian people. And I feel terrible because the whole thing was completely taken out of context and turned into this awful thing about immigration," he explained in an interview conducted over the telephone.

We've had a lot of journalists at the hospital (the "Marius Nasta" Institute), BBC was there and did a great story about three months ago. The problem before was that nobody cared about TB and to get even a school newspaper to write about TB was a victory. This was the first time someone turned it into a political thing.

I have this quote that says: "When the guy is sat on the Tube train it's too late. The estimate is that he's going to infect 10-15 people a year". Did you say that?

I did say that, pretty much everything I said was all part of a conversation that lasted for like 4 hours. And it's true, if someone has TB, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that each year they will infect 10-15 people and of those people one will develop active TB dise