placing carriers under guard in isolation wards until they die

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The dilemma of a deadly disease: patients may be forcibly detained South Africa is considering forcibly detaining people who carry a deadly strain of tuberculosis that has already claimed hundreds of lives. The strain threatens to cause a global pandemic, but the planned move pits public protection against human rights.The country's health department says it has discussed with the World Health Organisation and South Africa's leading medical organisations the possibility of placing carriers of extreme drug resistant TB or XDR-TB under guard in isolation wards until they die, but has yet to reach a decision. http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,,1996612,00.html

 

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