How do you like this for failing to take...

[Tony Soprano]

...medication for his tuberculosis Sheriff's Office detain illegal? The Putnam County Sheriff's Department is holding a Guatemalan man for failing to take medication for his tuberculosis. The Health Department treated a number of people in one East Eatonton home for TB, but a few of the people had stopped taking their treatments. The Health Department received an order from the Putnam County Superior Court to have the Sheriff's Office detain the individuals to avert a county-wide health risk. Deputies and Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) detained eleven illegal immigrants in the house. Deputies escorted Jamie Romero, a Guatemalan citizen, and have housed him in a trailer on Putnam County Jail property. The remaining ten people were taken into custody, and are currently in a detention center in Stewart County awaiting deportation.http://idexer.com/2007/08/09/putnam-sheriff-quarantines-illegal-immigrant-with-tb-one-infected-man-still-missing.html

[suyuntay]

You must be crazy if you think our people are going to take the poison your white doctors want to shove down their throats.You may have done it to Blacks several times, but we're wise to your genocidal tactics.

[Super Chee]

I hate it.. there has been a NON ILLEGAL in jail since April. Man I bet you hate it when people expose you for a racist.Man Jailed for Having Deadly TBTuesday, April 03, 2007PHOENIX — 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.County health authorities obtained a court order to lock him up as a danger to the public because he failed to take precautions to avoid infecting others. Specifically, he said he did not heed doctors' instructions to wear a mask in public.• Brainroom: Facts About Tuberculosis"I'm being treated worse than an inmate," Daniels said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press last month. "I'm all alone. Four walls. Even the door to my room has been locked. I haven't seen my reflection in months."Though Daniels' confinement is extremely rare, health experts say it is a situation that U.S. public health officials may have to confront more and more because of the spread of drug-resistant TB and the emergence of diseases such as SARS and avian flu in this increasingly interconnected world.

www.cdc.gov (http://www.cdc.gov/tb/surv/surv2004/PDF/Table1.pdfhttp://www.cdc.gov/tb/pubs/tbfactsheets/TBTrends.htmhttp://www.cdc.gov/tb/pubs/nowisthetime/default.htm"Back on Track Toward TB Elimination The nation’s mobilization of additional resources in the 1990s has paid off:We are now at an all-time low in reported TB cases, with 13 consecutive years of decline. In 2005, there were 14,097 persons with TB disease reported in the United States, declining from 14,515 cases in 2004."Please Micky provide some legitimacy to your statement "since the invasion". And please use reliable sources. The only two people confirmed with a deadly strain had been out of the country prior to contracting the disease.)

[vivalaraza]

Who was the guy who went on honeymoon in a plane with his wife knowing that he had tuberculosis?

[SpiderPig]

are you drinking tony....you questions make no sense

[Dee N]

Once again this is one of the many problems with allowing illegals into the country. They bring in diseases that we haven't had in decades. They refuse to take medication to cure their diseases. And because they are used to their family members, neighbors, tribe members heck, anyone around them carrying all these diseases they think it is perfectly normal to go around and infect healthy people here.

[geegee]

When tuberculosis was rampant in this country, many years ago; there were sanatoriums for patients. Since the control of TB in this country, these places for treatment were closed. Now there is no place to put these people that endanger the lives of others. The new, more deadly form of TB is the result of our eradicating the old & the new is a form that has come back, as do other germs, with greater resistance to treatment. The treatment these people are receiving from the health departments & police may seem harsh but, at present, what are we to do with these people who seem to have no regard for the lives of others? Are we to let them just infect others at random. We must either open areas in hospitals that are quarantined from the rest of the hospital or start to reopen the sanatoriums again. A hospital wouldn't be my first choice, too many people in & out, too much chance for infection to spread.

[DAR]

Illegal or legal, if you don't treat your TB, you are a public threat.That goes for attorneys that jet set to Europe to get married, as well.