NBC NEWS – Instead of arresting the woman, identified only as V.N. in documents filed in Pierce County Superior Court, the officer let her go and a local judge found her in contempt. On Friday, Judge Philip K. Sorenson ordered that she be seized and treated against her will, online records show. Authorities haven’t been able to find her, a Pierce County sheriff’s spokesman said in an email. Tuberculosis, which once killed millions of people worldwide but declined to nearly 7,900 cases in the U.S. in 2021, can be deadly if left untreated.
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