Meet TB Andrew

The runaway TB patient has been identified as Andrew Speaker, a 31 year old Atlanta attorney specializing in personal-injury cases. In the long tradition of Typhoid Mary and Patient Zero (later identified as flight attendant Gaëtan Dugas), we now have a name to attach to the threat of XDR tuberculosis. Boy this guy’s life will never be the same.

Published by: tgoetz on May 31st, 2007 | Filed under Disease, Media

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