Texas Plan for AIDS Quarantine Dropped
State Health Commissioner Robert Bernstein on Thursday dropped his proposal to add AIDS to the list of diseases for which Texans could be quarantined.
The proposal, tentatively approved last month by the state health board, drew heated criticism from homosexual organizations and civil rights groups.
It was that opposition, voiced at a public hearing last Monday, that moved Bernstein to drop his proposal.
Bernstein had proposed the rule as a “last resort” to isolate AIDS victims who refuse to curtail activity that could spread the often-fatal disease. His idea was sparked by a Houston incident in which an AIDS sufferer refused to stop working as a street prostitute.
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