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Man jailed for not taking T.B. medication
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12-9-2007 6:07 PM
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/b577903b-6f81-40df-a059-06d753b2eefb/842D5064-866D-46A7-8B02-916CBE8F899B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.mail.com/Article.aspx?articlepath=APNews\Health\20071207\Tuberculosis_Confinement_20071207.xml&cat=health&subcat=&pageid=1" href="http://www.mail.com/Article.aspx?articlepath=APNews\Health\20071207\Tuberculosis_Confinement_20071207.xml&cat=health&subcat=&pageid=1" style="font-size: 11px;">www.mail.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mail.com/Article.aspx?articlepath=APNews\Health\20071207\Tuberculosis_Confinement_20071207.xml&cat=health&subcat=&pageid=1"><P>A man was jailed for failing to take his tuberculosis medication after officials said he was a serious health risk.</P><P>James Roman Pearson, 49, remained at the Pima County jail Thursday on a tuberculosis violation, more than two weeks after the county health department petitioned to have him taken into custody.</P><P>"He is now being held in isolation. The court will decide when he will be released," said Deputy Dawn Hanke, a sheriff's department spokeswoman.</P><P>Pearson has been taking his medication since he has been in custody, authorities said.</P><P>A Superior Court hearing Wednesday was ordered closed and records sealed, under a</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mail.com/Article.aspx?articlepath=APNews\Health\20071207\Tuberculosis_Confinement_20071207.xml&cat=health&subcat=&pageid=1">state law allowing a TB patient to request both.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mail.com/Article.aspx?articlepath=APNews\Health\20071207\Tuberculosis_Confinement_20071207.xml&cat=health&subcat=&pageid=1"><P>Under Arizona law, patient confidentiality is paramount in tuberculosis cases, dating to when those with the disease carried a significant stigma, he said.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mail.com/Article.aspx?articlepath=APNews\Health\20071207\Tuberculosis_Confinement_20071207.xml&cat=health&subcat=&pageid=1"><P>In October, a man who spent nearly a year jailed in Phoenix for failing to take precautions to prevent the spread of his drug-resistant TB moved to Russia.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/842D5064-866D-46A7-8B02-916CBE8F899B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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