Man Locked up for having Untreatable TB

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Behind the county hospital's tall cinderblock walls, a 27-year-old tuberculosis patient sits in a jail cell equipped with a ventilation system that keeps germs from escaping. Robert Daniels has been locked up indefinitely, perhaps for the rest of his life, since last July. But he has not been charged with a crime. Instead, he suffers from an extensively drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis, or XDR-TB. It is considered virtually untreatable........
Daniels has been living alone in a four-bed cell in Ward 41, a section of the hospital reserved for sick criminals. He said sheriff's deputies will not let him take a shower - he cleans himself with wet wipes - and have taken away his television, radio, personal phone and computer. His only visitors are masked medical staff members who come in to give him his medication.

Imagine being locked up for having a disease in this day and age. Seems it is a fine line that is being trod there. The man didn't take the precautions he needed to to prevent the spread of his form of TB but where does the line get drawn?

Edit to fix Title.


[edit on 3-4-2007 by pavil]

[edit on 3-4-2007 by pavil]

Thanks for the post pavil. However, there is an existing thread on this topic.

www.abovetopsecret.com...

Please add to the ongoing discussion.

Thank you.


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