A bogus Somali asylum invader, who has crossed at least seven safe countries before landing here to parasite off the British taxpayer, has been admitted to a Leeds hospital suffering from the dread, incurable and untreatable, drug-resistant super-tuberculosis.

Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB), or XDR TB, is common in the Third World, and in countries where health programmes have either failed or are busy collapsing.

The bogus asylum invader is the first person to be diagnosed in Britain with the disease. Incredibly, his case was picked up in Glasgow in January but a court order detaining him in hospital for treatment lapsed after his condition stabilised and he travelled south to Leeds, West Yorks. There he was admitted to the Accident and Emergency unit within 24 hours of arriving.

It remains unclear if his application for asylum, made when he arrived in the UK last year, has been successful but the bill for treatment, which would run into tens of thousands of pounds a year — is being picked up by the NHS in Leeds — in other words, the taxpayer, who has already had to shell out thousands for the asylum process as well.

XDR TB poses a worldwide threat amid major concerns over increasing resistance of tuberculosis to antibiotics which originally proved highly effective against the illness. The World Health Organisation has warned that if the strain becomes established, it could lead to a TB epidemic leaving few options for treatment.