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Man with active case of Tuberculosis ordered quarantined on preventative detention

Man with active case of Tuberculosis ordered quarantined on preventative detention

FILE - This 1966 microscope photo provided by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacilli, the organism responsible for causing the disease tuberculosis. /Elizabeth S. Mingioli /CDC via AP, File


MANCHESTER, N.H.- A man state health officials say has tuberculosis has been taken into custody on an unrelated criminal warrant and is now being held in quarantine.

On Tuesday a judge ordered that Nearro Forbes,41, be held in preventive detention at Eliot Hospital saying that he poses a danger to the community.

The move comes as officials from the Dept of Health and Human Services had been trying to persuade Forbes to comply with the order through a civil proceeding.

Officials say Forbes, had frequented the warming center at Nashua’s former Elm Street Middle School for months.

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