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2007-03-02 Science & Technology

Man with 'extreme' TB may be jailed in Phoenix ward until death

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Posted by Anonymoose 2007-03-02 08:47|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Moose -

Amen to THAT. And there is plenty of legal precedent for it. Anyone remember this nice lady?:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoid_Mary

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2007-03-02 09:30|| 2007-03-02 09:30|| Front Page Top

#2 Daniels stopped taking his medication and went unmasked to a restaurant, a convenience market and other stores, court records stated.

Hang him then go round to his place and paint a white X on the front door.

Posted by Excalibur 2007-03-02 09:38|| 2007-03-02 09:38|| Front Page Top

#3 http://tinyurl.com/2sw5kh

New York City did this in 1993.

BTW, I actually saw a leper (right up from Mexico) in a convenience store in Phoenix in the mid-'80's. Once the light dawned, I moonwalked.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-03-02 09:56|| 2007-03-02 09:56|| Front Page Top

#4 Lock him up until there is no trace of TB or until he expires. MDR TB costs $250,000 per patient to treat and 1/4 fatality rate. Extreme DR TB is much worse: Doctor who discovered killer TB strain in South Africa says it's probably widespread
A particularly drug-resistant tuberculosis discovered in eastern South Africa is likely to have spread beyond the rural area where 52 of the 53 people first diagnosed with the new strain have died,

Of course, being South Africa, a good percentage of the TB patients have HIV, but still a 98% death rate.

Posted by ed 2007-03-02 10:13|| 2007-03-02 10:13|| Front Page Top

#5 Leprosy is an extremely hard disease to get. It takes intimate contact with a sufferer for a very long time. The Biblical descriptions are much overstated. You weren't in any danger, Anonymoose.

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2007-03-02 11:46|| 2007-03-02 11:46|| Front Page Top

#6 Bigger risk of starving to death in Sheriff Joe's tent resort.

Posted by Phineter Thraviger 2007-03-02 12:14|| 2007-03-02 12:14|| Front Page Top

#7 I've no idea if I'm among that 10% of the population that can get Hansen's disease. And not having a reference with me when I saw the man, why rely on memory?

I suppose it's like smelling gangrene. You may not know what it is, but you know that it is bad.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-03-02 12:32|| 2007-03-02 12:32|| Front Page Top

doctors at Russian clinics where he was treated didn't even wear masks

Well, duh.

Posted by JSU 2007-03-02 13:42|| 2007-03-02 13:42|| Front Page Top

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