Tuberculosis-infected migrant's release cited in Louisiana litigation

[Bum]

(The Center Square) – Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill is suing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security over its plans to release a tuberculosis-positive Chinese migrant into the U.S. without clearance from the state Health Department.
Murrill filed the emergency lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana on Oct. 16 and it was unsealed on Tuesday at Murrill's request once personal details were redacted.

MSN

This is simply ridiculous; TB alone is a problem and is extremely infectious, but releasing an individual with resistant TB (The article did not specify if it was XDR or MDR ) into the public is simply criminally negligent and a huge public health hazard.

This was an issue when I was in Afghanistan; the Ministry of Health had to enforce quarantine in TB wards because the soldiers and civilians where non-compliant with treatment, and this resulted in more resistant strains cropping up; it didn't help that soldiers in Barracks with hundreds of other soldiers, or multi-generational families were living in cramped living accommodations....prime conditions for TB to spread rapidly.

 

[ClaraD]

(The Center Square) – Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill is suing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security over its plans to release a tuberculosis-positive Chinese migrant into the U.S. without clearance from the state Health Department.
Murrill filed the emergency lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana on Oct. 16 and it was unsealed on Tuesday at Murrill's request once personal details were redacted.

MSN

This is simply ridiculous; TB alone is a problem and is extremely infectious, but releasing an individual with resistant TB (The article did not specify if it was XDR or MDR ) into the public is simply criminally negligent and a huge public health hazard.

This was an issue when I was in Afghanistan; the Ministry of Health had to enforce quarantine in TB wards because the soldiers and civilians where non-compliant with treatment, and this resulted in more resistant strains cropping up; it didn't help that soldiers in Barracks with hundreds of other soldiers, or multi-generational families were living in cramped living accommodations....prime conditions for TB to spread rapidly.

I am going to agree here...anyone with an infectious, active tb case needs to be in quarantine...citizen or immigrant....if they aren't contagious that is quite different.