"Awulatu Iddi" <CU86475@student.redbridge-college.ac.uk> wrote...

Well here in the USA we've seen a rise in TB cases, but the gov't
refuses to do anything about it.  The concept of quarantine
disappeared when the HIV epidemic began, as it set the precedent
of treating a contagious disease as a "lifestyle option" and the
idea that carriers can't be quarantined lest their precious civil
rights be violated.  And since TB in the USA is still largely
confined to HIV patients and immigrants (presumably non-white
immigrants), TB control becomes impossible as any attempt to
contain it means violating the special civil rights of the HIV+
as well as non-white immigrants, as they make up the majority of
TB cases.