Lawsuit: police and doctors at UMC El Paso forced innocent woman to endure multiple warrantless cavity searches

Possibly…

Mary Mallon (Typhoid Mary) was quarantined on North Brother Island twice, and underwent fecal and urine sampling there the first time she was quarantined.

She was a healthy carrier of the Typhoid Salmonella bacteria, and didn’t medically require these procedures. But it was legal at the time to quarantine her, and forcibly take fecal and urine samples because she violated probation after she was released from quarantine the first time.

Of course, in this case there is an argument for medical necessity. It was necessary for public health, not hers.

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