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Volume 357:433-435 August 2, 2007 Number 5 Next

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The recent case of Atlanta attorney Andrew Speaker has focused attention on the role of compulsory isolation and quarantine in tuberculosis control. In May, after being diagnosed with a drug-resistant form of tuberculosis, Speaker flew to Europe for his wedding and honeymoon. While he was there, laboratory tests at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicated that Speaker's infection was extensively drug-resistant (XDR). Although accounts of what followed vary, it is known that the CDC contacted Speaker and asked him to stay in Italy while they tried to determine what to do. Fearing isolation in an Italian hospital, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Ms. Parmet is a professor of law at Northeastern University School of Law, Boston.

An interview with Professor Parmet can be heard at www.nejm.org.

This article has been cited by other articles:

• Parmet, W. E. (2008). J. S. Mill and the American Law of Quarantine. Public Health Ethics 1: 210-222 [Abstract] [Full Text]  
• Berlin, L. (2008). Tuberculosis: Resurgent Disease, Renewed Liability. Am. J. Roentgenol. 190: 1438-1444 [Full Text]