117:. Speaker says that he was informed of MDR TB before leaving the country, and that while officials preferred him not to fly, they said that he was not a threat and was not required to wear a mask. Once Speaker was in Europe, however, test results showed his strain of tuberculosis was even rarer than originally thought, leading public health officials to try to persuade Speaker to turn himself in to Italian health authorities. The CDC informed him that there were no options for the CDC to get him home, and that he would have to arrange private transportation. Speaker instead flew by commercial jet to
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Officials, his doctors, his fiancée, as well as his father and father-in-law on May 10, 2007. During this meeting, Speaker was informed that while he was not considered contagious or a threat to other, he would need to travel to Denver for treatment. After weeks of arranging this, he was still
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Speaker had was a resistant one and communicated this to the CDC. On May 1 the apparent MDR TB infection was discussed with the CDC lab by his doctors and they discussed discontinuing the treatment he
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975:"Andrew Speaker Sues CDC Over Handling of '07 TB Scare"
661:"A Timeline of Andrew Speaker's Infection, June, 2007"
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698:"TB patient insists he was never banned from travel"
492:Wearing a medical mask, Speaker was interviewed by
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682:Andrew Speaker Says He's Being Unfairly Attacked
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