PHOENIX, March 25 (UPI) -- An Arizona man said his indictment for having tuberculosis is retaliation for a lawsuit he filed over his involuntary quarantine.
Robert Daniels told the Arizona Republic that Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio charged him with unlawfully exposing the public to a disease because Daniels had sued the county over his year-long quarantine in a Phoenix hospital.
"They don't really have evidence," said Daniels. "They can't accuse me of anything unless there's a person who got the disease from me."
The newspaper said after Daniels was confined for a year in 2006, he was sent to a Colorado hospital where further tests revealed he had not contracted a dangerous drug-resistant strain of TB as originally feared.
He later quit his court-ordered treatments and fled the United States to Moscow where he said doctors cured him. Nevertheless, Sheriff Arpaio told reporters Monday that Daniels had put county residents at risk.
