Woman with TB in Washington who evaded treatment for a year is now cured

[thewayne]

Once she was arrested and health officials gained her trust, apparently she understood the risk she posed to the community and the infection posed to herself. She began treatment, her health improved, she regained weight, and is now cured and no longer a problem for the community.

While she was infected, amongst other things she had taken a public bus to a casino and had been in a traffic accident and later went to a hospital, complaining of chest pains. Her chest x-ray was so bad that the doctors thought she had lung cancer. It was actually showing that the TB had gotten much worse. Yet she continued to dodge health workers who wanted to get her into treatment.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/07/woman-who-went-on-the-lam-with-untreated-tb-is-now-cured/

Comments

[motodraconis]

Thing is, had she gone for treatment from the beginning would "the state" have paid? Or did they only agree pick up the tab after it became a news story? That would have made her fucking about worth while.

[thewayne]

Absolutely no idea.  I wish I had more information, but there are thousands of plans and each one is different coverage.  I don't have a clue how my plan would handle it if I caught TB.