BREAKING: Mexican Immigrant With Drug-Resistant TB Goes Missing in California (Video)

7/29/2014

Eduardo Rosas Cruz tested positive with a drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis, health officials say. (BBC)

An arrest Warrant was issued for a Mexican man in California with Tuberculosis.
Eduardo Cruz is a transient who comes from a part of Mexico known for a drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis.

Eduardo Rosas Cruz a homeless Mexican in California went missing in March.
He refused treatment for tuberculosis and fled authorities.
The BBC reported:

Authorities in California are searching for a fugitive homeless man who has refused treatment for tuberculosis and may be contagious.

An arrest warrant has been issued for Eduardo Rosas Cruz, 25, of Mexico.

Mr Cruz was diagnosed with the illness at a local emergency room in March but fled when asked to remain in the area for treatment.

Health officials are concerned he may be infected with a drug-resistant strain of the illness.

“We need help getting him in,” San Joaquin County public health officer Dr Alvaro Garza told US media. “We’ve not been able to find him in places he’s told us he’s going to be.”

It is currently unclear if Mr Cruz is contagious, but he has not completed a nine-month course of medicine required for treatment.

Tuberculosis – spread through air when an infected person sneezes or coughs – can be fatal if left untreated.

In March, Mr Cruz arrived in hospital in San Joaquin complaining of a severe cough, shortness of breath, high fever and weight loss.

After he was diagnosed with tuberculosis, he was told to stay in a nearby motel and wait for a health worker to deliver medication.

He did not comply, prompting government officials to add him to a state-wide law enforcement database and later obtain an arrest warrant.

He went missing in March but we’re just hearing about it now?
That’s unsettling.

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