Earlier this year, Atlanta lawyer Andrew Speaker became the world's most infamous tuberculosis patient. Speaker says he did nothing wrong when he left the U.S., other than to overestimate the competence of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Today he's in excellent health and takes 11 pills daily to make sure the TB will be fully eradicated. But his personal injury law practice is floundering, and his life is far from normal. "Most of the negative attention was from being an attorney," he says.
September 13, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
At the beginning of May, life was good for Andrew H. Speaker. The young Atlanta personal injury lawyer was about to start his own practice and was looking forward to his wedding in Greece later that month, followed by a three-week European honeymoon.
A month later, Speaker had become the world’s most infamous tuberculosis patient, held under armed guard at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta under the first federal isolation order to be issued in 44 years.
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