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

[silveradept]

Huzzah, and very glad that the TB has been defeated at the person is alive and healthy. And hopefully, there will be no surprise bills or other such things that would seem like punishment for her. Since it took so long and had to do a large amount of trust-building to get her to take the treatment, it would be a bad idea for something to come back and say that her trust was misplaced.