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Tuesday, July 3, 2007

Quarantined TB patient not so sick

The Atlanta lawyer quarantined with tuberculosis may not be as sick as doctors first thought. Officials at a Denver hospital say Andrew Speaker's TB is responding to some of the medications that were thought to be ineffective against his disease. That means he’s now considered to have multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis – rather than extremely drug-resistant tuberculosis. His wedding trip to Europe prompted an international manhunt.

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