In the spring of 2007, public-health officials sought to quarantine globetrotting groom Andrew Speaker, whom they believed (falsely, as was later shown) carried a severe form of tuberculosis. Although Speakers bureaucratic travails were relatively mild, recent legislation and executive orders have given government agencies broad authority to track down and quarantine suspected carriers of communicable diseases.
The Quarantine Quandary
By Becky Akers
This
article
appeared in
the Spring 2008 issue of The Independent Review.
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