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- <text id=93TT1236>
- <title>
- Mar. 22, 1993: Forced Quarantine
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Mar. 22, 1993 Can Animals Think
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 27
- HEALTH & SCIENCE
- Forced Quarantine
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- <body>
- <p> People suffering from tuberculosis in New York City had
- better complete the full course of drug treatment if they want to
- retain their freedom. Plagued by too many patients who stop
- taking their medication after a few weeks rather than continuing
- for the six months to two years needed to achieve a cure, city
- health officials announced they will soon begin to confine the
- most recalcitrant patients in hospitals and long-term
- facilities. Detainees will have legal protections and be
- released when they finish therapy. Boston and Denver have
- adopted similar TB quarantines.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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