Public Health (TB)

Health Officials Seek Greater Power To Treat TB Patients

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, February 3rd, 1997

Arizona state health officials want authority to seek out and quarantine tuberculosis (TB) patients and enforce treatment if necessary as a means to protect the uninfected population from acquiring the disease.

A bill that would give the Department of Health Services (DHS) that power has the support of the head of the House Health Committee, Rep. Sue Gerard, R-Phoenix.

The proposal is opposed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in Arizona and a scattering of other states in which similar measures are being considered.

"I think finding sick individuals and tracking them down and forcing them to submit to medical care is...

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Source: TB and Outbreaks Week (1997-02-03)

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