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Title: Stockton Man Arrested For Missing TB Treatments
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Published: May 28, 2012
Author: Eve King
Post Date: 2012-05-28 23:51:23 by freepatriot32
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Do you think people should be jailed for up to a year for missing a shot? Is this a viable use of your tax dollars? Should Public Health Services be arresting people? STOCKTON (CBS13) – A Stockton man was arrested on Tuesday after not making himself available for tuberculosis treatment, according to the San Joaquin County District Attorney’s Office. Armando Rodriquez, 34, was arrested and booked in the San Joaquin County Jail in French Camp for violating TB Control Orders of County Public Health Officer Dr. Karen Furst. The arrest was made by Stockton Police at the request of Public Health Services and the San Joaquin County District Attorney’s Office. San Joaquin County has over time arrested and jailed a number of patients and on occasion non-patients for failure to comply with written TB Control Orders of the county health officer. Doing so is a misdemeanor and can be punished by up to one year in the county jail and two years probation. This case is not believed to have created an issue of exposure as there is no allegation that treatment was lost for a significant period of time, according to the District Attorney’s Office. Rodriguez reportedly first broke an appointment to be home on May 2 and failed to resolve his matter with the Public Health Services by phone calls and attempts to find him through May 9. A warrant was signed on Monday and Stockton Police arrested him Tuesday. The county has had more than 30 tuberculosis prosecutions since 1984, prosecutor Stephen Taylor said. It also has prosecuted a woman accused of knowingly giving syphilis to her sex partners and refusing treatment. Taylor said San Joaquin County is more aggressive than other jurisdictions in prosecuting tuberculosis patients to get them to take their medication. 
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#1. To: All, *Jack-Booted Thugs*, *Humor-Weird News* (#0)
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Remember the talk about prosecuting AIDS patients who went around having unprotected sex with unwarned persons? Well, TB cases can pass the disease on just by breathing in the vicinity of other people -- and TB can be cured. So someone who refuses to take the cure and persists in going out in public is in the same category.
Wetbacks and other Third Worlders are bringing diseases into the U.S. that were eradicated several decades ago. They've also brought infestations of bedbugs. I sense a disturbance in the farce. Much gnashing will ensue.
I spent a few years as a county Health Officer(quit because of the local good ol' boy system) and we had a cluster of TB cases in a local motorcycle gang who behaved like the Hells Angels. The meds can't be mixed with alcohol and these guys start breakfast with Jack Daniels. I had to have one put in jail to take meds because it's so contagious. TB is a special case, as a single infected person who won't comply can make life bad for many others. A man just like him gave me TB in 1982 in med school and I got very ill from the treatment.
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