Extreme TB Patient Taken to Denver - Patient is NAMED!

May 31, 2007 17:45

Extreme TB Patient Taken To Denver
courtesy of CBSNews.com

(CBS/AP) A tuberculosis patient under the first federal quarantine since 1963 was taken Thursday to National Jewish Medical and Research Center in Denver, which specializes in respiratory disorders, officials said.

CBS News has learned the man with the extreme form of tuberculosis is Andrew Harley Speaker, a 31-year-old lawyer from Atlanta. A medical official in Atlanta also confirmed the name on condition of anonymity.

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So much for the patient-doctor privacy policy, eh?
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