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Quarantine controversy Critics say enforced quarantine is a violation of medical ethics and individual human rights. Health authorities say they have no choice.
Why quarantine may backfire XDR-TB patients are being kept behind fences. Is this sensible, or a crucial error in the fight against the epidemic?
Quarantine urged for XDR-TB People with a new deadly form of tuberculosis should be quarantined - even against their will - to prevent the disease's spread, scientists argue.
Should SA quarantine TB patients? Should health workers have the right to force patients with serious infectious or contagious diseases to submit to treatment?
XDR-TB patients face the law The Western Cape health department says it is to take legal action to get three extreme drug-resistant TB patients back into a Cape Town hospital.