(Palm Beach Post) Since 2008, Jacksonville has battled an uncontained tuberculosis outbreak federal officials describe as among the worst in two decades, the upshot of a contagious patient in the homeless community.
But just two years after that patient triggered an investigation by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, another homeless TB patient in Jacksonville also slipped the safety net intended to protect an unwary public, The Palm Beach Post has found.
Affidavits and interviews with health department officials detail a sobering account of how the man fell through the cracks of every program intended to arrest the spread of TB by an infected individual — and how a Duval County health official who says he complained about it lost his job.
