Texas locks-up TB Patient

[navari]

http://tinyurl.com/2mavg3

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.

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.

Texas has placed 17 tuberculosis patients into an involuntary quarantine facility this year in San Antonio.

[kathy]

Very interesting Navari

Here in Ireland many present day hospitals began as Tuberculosis sanatoriums.

Several years ago I met a very elderly lady in hospital who told me of how children diagnosed with Tuberculosis were admitted to these sanatoriums, their parents were given numbers for their children and each child was referred to by that number only. The only access parents of to information about their childs/childrens progress or lack of progress was through newspapers. If a child recovered and was to be discharged from the sanatorium, their number was printed in the newspaper, likewise if a child died, their number was printed in the newspaper.

This elderly lady recounted how, as she travelled to Dublin city on a tram, she could see the children playing in the garden of one sanatorium, which is now a major general hospital in Dublin.

Dáil Éireann - Volume 161 - 22 May, 1957
Tuberculosis Mortality.

TUBERCULOSIS (ESTABLISHMENT OF SANATORIA) ACT, 1945

[Toto]

Has TB ever been treated naturally?

[truthseeker]

Yes, indeed. TB is frequently treated with dietary changes. Michio Kushi and Alex Jack, in "The Macrobiotic Path to Total Health" have extensive passages on the causes and treatments for tuberculosis.

[Toto]