Because evolution is a reality:
A virulent strain of tuberculosis resistant to most available drugs is surfacing around the globe, raising fears of a pandemic that could devastate efforts to contain TB and prove deadly to people with immune-deficiency diseases such as HIV-AIDS.
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Doctors in Phoenix diagnosed his illness as the new resistant strain of TB. Daniels again failed to follow doctors' orders, authorities say. So health officials got a court order, and he was locked up in the prison wing of a Phoenix hospital, where he has spent the past nine months in hermetically sealed isolation.
"It's not right," Daniels said in a telephone interview. "I'm not a criminal."
Daniels has become a case study in the bleak choices society faces in dealing with the new strain and attempting to balance protection of individual rights with protection of the public.
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