South Africa considers forcing TB patients into guarded isolation wards until they die


South Africa is considering forcibly detaining people who carry a deadly strain of tuberculosis that threatens to cause a global pandemic.

Read more: The dilemma of a deadly disease: patients may be forcibly detained

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