Robert Daniels with his wife Alla and their son in Moscow, before he came to the US
The case of Robert Daniels, the man jailed with drug-resistant tuberculosis, has sparked a national debate over how government should balance the need to protect the public from a transmissible disease, with the need to protect a person's constitutional rights.
08 October 2007
Tuberculosis Patient Leaves CountryA Phoenix man who contracted a rare form of drug-resistant tuberculosis has left the country. Over the weekend, 28-year-old Robert Daniels violated a court order, and flew to Russia where his wife and son live.
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05 October 2007
TB Patient Back in AZTuberculosis patient Robert Daniels is back in Phoenix. He's the man who sparked a national debate over the ethics of forced quarantine in cases of infectious disease. Daniels spent 11 month in a lock down facility at the Maricopa Medical Center, after he went out in public without a face mask. He was eventually flown to Denver for medical treatment, where he had his left lung removed.
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19 July 2007
TB Patient Moved to Denver for TreatmentAn Arizona man with a dangerous strain of drug-resistant tuberculosis is being moved to National Jewish Medical and Research Center in Denver. That's the same hospital that's treating Atlanta attorney Andrew Speaker, also a TB patient.
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16 July 2007
TB Patient Waiting for Medical TransferMedical officials in Colorado say they're preparing for the arrival of Robert Daniels, the Phoenix man with a dangerous form of tuberculosis. Since last summer, Daniels has been held in court-ordered isolation at the Maricopa Medical Center in Phoenix. He's due to be transferred to a Denver hospital. KJZZ's Rene Gutel reports the move is taking longer than Daniels, or his attorneys, would like.
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13 July 2007
AZ TB Patient May Be Moved to DenverA Phoenix man with a rare and dangerous form of drug resistant tuberculosis may soon be transferred to National Jewish Medical and Research Center in Colorado, where TB patient Andrew Speaker has been treated. For the past year, Robert Daniels has been has been quarantined in a jail ward of the Maricopa Medical Center.
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31 May 2007
ACLU Files Suit Over TB CaseThe American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit claiming Maricopa County officials are violating the rights of a quarantined tuberculosis patient by treating him like a criminal. Since last year, Robert Daniels has been held in a lockdown ward of the Maricopa Medical Center. He has multi-drug resistant tuberculosis and was quarantined after refusing to wear a facemask in public.
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16 April 2007
TB Case Raises Bioethical QuestionsThe case of Robert Daniels, the man jailed with drug-resistant tuberculosis, has sparked a national debate over how government should balance the need to protect the public from a transmissible disease, with the need to protect a person's constitutional rights. We hear from ASU Law Professor Dan Strouse, a bioethicist and expert in U-S quarantine law.
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07 April 2007
AZ ACLU Takes on Robert Daniels CaseThe American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona says it is taking up the case of the Phoenix man quarantined for his rare type of tuberculosis. Since last July Robert Daniels has been held in court ordered isolation because he went out in public without a face mask.
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29 March 2007
Phoenix Man with TB in LockdownA Phoenix man with a virulent strain of tuberculosis has been on a lockdown wing of the Maricopa County Medical Center for eight months. County health officials have gone to extreme measures to keep Robert Daniels' illness from spreading. Some say too extreme.
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