Remember the woman in Tacoma with the active TB? She's still untreated.

[thewayne]

She has been "eluding" police and not responding to orders to turn herself in. Her attorney and family are not cooperating. She was under police surveillance apparently, but for some reason they didn't arrest her.

So for over three months now, she's been riding public transit, going to a casino, and who knows what else.

According to the World Health Organization, in 2021 tuberculosis killed 1.6 MILLION people worldwide.

https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/05/fugitive-with-untreated-tuberculosis-continues-to-stump-law-enforcement/

Comments

[acelightning73]

How come they can't catch her and put her into "protective custody" or quarantine or whatever the law allows?

[thewayne]

Excellent question.  The police say that their priority is catching attempted murderers and such and that she's lower priority.  But even lower priority people get caught.  Clearly they're not doing a good job on this court order. Interestingly, the jail has two negative pressure rooms for holding such cases.

[acelightning73]

She IS a murderess, with her contaminated breath as her weapon.

[thewayne]

I can't disagree with you.  I think it wouldn't take a lot of effort from the PD to catch her, seems like they're being cowards.