The following is from the article itself. I'm posting it because I feel the title, though correct may appear clickbaity:
The following is from the article itself. I'm posting it because I feel the title, though correct may appear clickbaity:
Authorities have taken the unprecedented step of charging a Vancouver man under the province's Public Health Act for allegedly refusing to comply with a medical health officer's orders for HIV treatment.
"I cannot impress upon you to what extent this is an unusual step for us to take. This is not the norm," said Dr. Reka Gustafson.
The court document says the order was tied to the level of human immunodeficiency genetic material in his blood: once it exceeded a level that would make him infectious he was supposed to attend daily appointments.
Doing something like this for a communicable disease that rarely results in death, especially among certain populations (mentally ill, for example), seems both unnecessary and might be bad for...
Doing something like this for a communicable disease that rarely results in death, especially among certain populations (mentally ill, for example), seems both unnecessary and might be bad for human immune system health.
The following is from the article itself. I'm posting it because I feel the title, though correct may appear clickbaity:
Can we expect to see this happen to people with other communicable diseases, or is it going to be limited to only the Scary Ones?
Doing something like this for a communicable disease that rarely results in death, especially among certain populations (mentally ill, for example), seems both unnecessary and might be bad for human immune system health.
I believe we really don't expect to really see this at all. This is a pretty unique case in itself.