[frithguild]

This is a little far from my field, so I'll give it a SWAG.

Health issues are ordinarily handled by local and state governments. Most, if not all, states give broad powers to the Medical Examiner to take precautions such as quarantine where appropriate criteria are met. Talk to your parents and grandparents about tuberculosis. People who suffered from that disease, before there was a vacccine, were sent "out to the shacks."

Adding a federal component to preventing the spread of disease has not been a positive development (I generally fail to see how expansion of fereral power over the past 100 years has been positive on almost any front). With the interposition of activist concocted rights of privacy, we have been subject to a vast and unchecked epidemic, namely AIDS.

I have no doubt that any court will protect their tender hides while conducting any hearing regarding infected people. I don't see that as an issue.

Hope this helps

[Calpernia]

Ping to Frithguild's post.

[Betty Jo]

Thanks for your input.