A current news item reveals two recent incidents where we cannot protect ourselves so easily from drug resistant strains of TB, as an example.

Dateline for this article is 12/6/2007, 21:56 EST and can be emailed to anyone wanting the source data which we received from Verizon.net's news summary. The article entitled "Man Jailed for Not Taking TB Medication" had two interesting points:

• In Arizona, a man who failed to take his tuberculosis medication was jailed and put in isolation because he posed a serious health risk to the community.
• In May, a different TB patient was at the center of a different international incident when he flew to Europe for his wedding.