Bugs in the system

by Nikki Tundel, Minnesota Public Radio

Tuberculosis patient Andrew Speaker is the first person ordered into isolation by the federal government in over forty years. His case has returned the word "quarantine" to our public vocabulary.

St. Paul, Minn. — Reporter Nikki Tundel and DJ Mary Lucia discuss the history of quarantines and ponder whether we can trust those with infectious diseases to voluntarily isolate themselves from the healthy.