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Masked judge offers TB victim jail March 06, 2003 Wearing a surgical mask for protection, a judge ordered a man to be retested for tuberculosis and to undergo the full course of treatment if he has the disease. If he refuses to comply, Rickey Martin will be sentenced to six months in jail - long enough to make sure he takes all of his medication. Martin, 39, was diagnosed with TB last year after his 10-month-old son died of tubercular meningitis, an infection of the brain and spinal cord caused by the bacteria that also cause tuberculosis. Martin insists what he suffers from is bronchitis. State health officials sought the court order because Martin stopped the required six-month course of treatment nine weeks early...
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