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Tuberculosis - Quarantine
Quarantine controversy
Critics say enforced quarantine is a violation of medical ethics and individual human rights. Health authorities say they have no choice.
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?
TB patients up in arms
Operations are back to normal at the Sizwe Tropical Diseases Hospital in Edenvale following an amicable decision arrived at between patients and health officials.
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.
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?
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