Once-Quarantined TB Patient Flies to Russia
A tuberculosis patient who was confined to a jail hospital ward in Arizona for failing to take his medications has left the country.
Robert Daniels lived in the ward for almost a year but was recently released because he was no longer contagious, the Associated Press reports. He is a citizen of both the United States and Russia. He left the country and traveled to Moscow.
ABC15.com said Daniels fled because he feared a possible prosecution. Even though doctors determined Daniels was no longer contagious, he was ordered to stay in Phoenix, where he could be monitored by county health officials, for at least a year and a half.
The American Civil Liberties Union had filed a lawsuit in May that claimed the detention violated Daniels’ constitutional rights, the Arizona Republic reported at the time.
