Doctors Give TB Fugitive Good News

Runaway lawyer's disease less dangerous than initially thought

By Greg Atwan, Newser User

Posted Jul 3, 2007 5:21 PM CDT

(Newser) – TB patient Andrew Speaker is not quite as sick as planeloads of people feared, Reuters reports. A doctor from Speaker's Denver hospital says the Atlanta lawyer, who flew to Europe despite warnings that he was highly contagious, doesn't have XDR—or extensively drug-resistant—tuberculosis, but... Read full story »

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