Monday, May 09, 2005

Tuberculosis on the run

The BBC highlights how powerless authorities were in being unable to properly treat a man who infected 12 other people with TB as he was not prepared to be undergo the full course of treatment himself. As TB is a potentially fatal disease, should he be charged with attempted to murder or GBH due to the similarities of a man who infected his lover with HIV?

1 comment:

dearieme said...

Typhoid Mary was isolated, wasn't she? What on earth has happenned in the common law jurisdictions over the past century that elementary public health requirements are not imposed?