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CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) - South African authorities have threatened to use police in door-to-door searches to compel 23 patients with highly infectious, drug resistant tuberculosis to return to the hospital they escaped from last week.
The patients had complained that they wanted to spend Christmas with their families. Some had been in the hospital for more than 18 months.
Eastern Cape health department spokesman Siyanda Manana said Wednesday that court orders would be delivered to the patients' homes Thursday.
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