http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2007/5/31/135724/911 The news services have been abuzz recently with the story of a man identified as <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18960857/">laywer Andrew Speaker</a>. He is said to be involuntarily quarantined after becoming infected with a type of tuberculosis (XDR-TB) which is quite scary due to its <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5611a3.htm">extensive drug resistance</a>. en-us Fri, 1 Jun 2007 07:48:12 EST Mon, 4 Jun 2007 15:06:35 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2007/5/31/135724/911#8 <i>Slate</i> put up an <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2167391?nav=tap3">Explainer</a> article that goes over the various protocols we have for quarantining a patient.  It sounds like forced isolation is generally a fallback method that is used when Mon, 4 Jun 2007 15:06:35 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2007/5/31/135724/911#7 His father-in-law is a TB expert, but both are claiming they didn't discuss his TB diagnosis. What the hell? Though maybe her dad hates him. That's weird though. Fri, 1 Jun 2007 15:33:27 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2007/5/31/135724/911#6 It would be interesting to see what would happen if he made a proper court challenge. <p> From what I recall, the legal pundits were saying that the bulk of his challenge would be to the constitutionality of the quarantine order. I am sure on there is some Fri, 1 Jun 2007 14:22:03 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2007/5/31/135724/911#5 Trying to re-find the links but I've read the Speaker is in the early stages of his TB so it's not that bad and that if he took a quarantine to court, he'd likely win. Fri, 1 Jun 2007 14:14:01 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2007/5/31/135724/911#4 <blockquote> Andrew Speaker recently moved from an upscale condominium complex in anticipation of his wedding, former neighbors said. <i>He also wrote in an application to become a board member of his condo association that he was going to Vietnam for five Fri, 1 Jun 2007 11:30:37 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2007/5/31/135724/911#3 Speaker's story has been burried in updates but does anyone recall the original reports of how he supposedly contracted TB? You hear all about his travels since he got TB now but unless it was through his father-in-law, it almost had to be from overseas. Fri, 1 Jun 2007 10:56:56 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2007/5/31/135724/911#2 I will defend my "no" vote on the poll, because I see I am in the very rare minority. I wrote the question to ask if he should have immediately been sent to the hospital isolation ward upon getting his diagnosis, before any of this happens. I predict with Fri, 1 Jun 2007 10:54:25 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2007/5/31/135724/911#1 Let an editor Samuel L. that motherfucker.  Here's a link that clearly identifies that Speaker's father-in-law works for the CDC in TB research:<p> <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070601.TB01GTA/TPStory/National">http://www Fri, 1 Jun 2007 07:48:51 EST string http://www.treesandthings.com/search/