Teen jailed for TB - denied having disease , officials say?

When doctors told Francisco Santos he had tuberculosis Friday, health officials said the Gwinnett County 17-year-old refused to believe it.

Then the wiry, dark-haired youth refused to submit to any treatment. Worse, he said he was walking out of the Gwinnett Medical Center in Lawrenceville and heading back to his home country of Mexico, officials said.

Gwinnett health officials found themselves in a bind. They had a person with a case of active, contagious tuberculosis, refusing treatment and threatening to carry the disease to a foreign country.

See link - http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/a...

Question - What are your thoughts ?

His right to liberty is being interfered with. However if he does indeed have TB, by refusing treatment and by mingling with the public he is interfering with other people's right to life. He does have a right to due process including legal representation and having the matter reviewed by a judge. A judge has likely already reviewed the matter and signed an order to incarcerate.

The article said they will un-jail him and hospitalize him if he agrees to treatment; I think that is reasonable.

They did the right thing. Once he is no longer contagious he can be sent back to Mexico.

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