A desperate hunt is underway in Northern California for a tuberculosis patient who has refused treatment and may be contagious, putting those around him at risk. Prosecutors said on Thursday that they have obtained an arrest warrant for Eduardo Rosas Cruz, a 25-year-old transient. In March, he went to the San Joaquin General Hospital's emergency room, complaining of a severe cough. Diagnosed with tuberculosis, medical staff told him to stay in a Stockton motel room, where a health worker would deliver his medication and watch him take it. But officials say he took off. County health officials asked prosecutors to seek the warrant, in part, because Rosas Cruz comes from a part of Mexico known for its drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis.
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Eduardo Rosas Cruz was diagnosed with tuberculosis in March
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Medical staff told him to stay in a motel where he would have medication delivered and a worker would watch him take it -  but he vanished
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Cruz is from a part of Mexico known for its drug-resistant strain of TB
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Prosecutors have a warrant out for his arrest after he broke the orders of the health officer - but say they do not want to punish him
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