When health officials testified before Congress this week, much of the focus was on who said what to whom and when, in discussions about TB patient and lawyer Andrew Speaker. As officials and Speaker argued over whether he was told not to fly, the hearing showed how the case has become part fire drill and part TV soap opera. But the hearing also touched on key legal issues that will determine how the next episode is handled -- such as officials' power to detain people to protect others.
June 08, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
When federal and Fulton County, Ga., health officials testified before Congress this week, much of the focus was on who said what, to whom and when, in discussions about the now-famous tuberculosis patient Andrew Speaker.
The Atlanta lawyer made headlines last week after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced May 29 that it had issued a federal isolation order against a then-unnamed patient who might have posed a risk of infection to passengers on two trans-Atlantic flights.
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