Read more Andrew Speaker stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/2442/andrew-speaker.htmlhttp://img1-cdn.newser.com/images/newser-black250x40.gifhttp://www.newser.com/2012 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorThu, 24 May 2012 22:30:22 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/4258/fellow-airline-passengers-sue-tb-lawyer.htmlColleen Barry<img src='http://img2-cdn.newser.com/getimage.aspx?mediaid=12007&width=45&height=45&crop=Y&updateddate=20110401034105' border='0' />Nine airline passengers are suing the Atlanta lawyer infected with a rare TB strain who flew to Europe for his wedding despite CDC warnings not to travel. The $1.3 million suit filed in Montreal claims Andrew Speaker recklessly exposed them to a deadly disease. The passengers, seven Canadians and...This June 6, 2007 file handout photo released by the Public Affairs Office of the National Jewish Medical and Research Center, shows tuberculosis patient Andrew Speaker in his isolation room at the National Jewish Medical and Research Center in Denver. Nine people filed a $1.3 million lawsuit Thursday, July 12, 2007 against the globe-trotting tuberculosis patient for possibly exposing them to the disease on a commercial flight from Prague to Montreal. (AP Photo/Public Affairs Office of National Jewish Medical and Research Center, William Alsetter)http://www.newser.com/story/4258/fellow-airline-passengers-sue-tb-lawyer.htmlFri, 13 Jul 2007 04:37:59 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/3815/doctors-give-tb-fugitive-good-news.htmlGreg Atwan<img src='http://img1-cdn.newser.com/getimage.aspx?mediaid=10182&width=45&height=45&crop=Y&updateddate=20110401034319' border='0' />TB patient Andrew Speaker is not quite as sick as planeloads of people feared, Reuters reports. A doctor from Speaker's Denver hospital says the Atlanta lawyer, who flew to Europe despite warnings that he was highly contagious, doesn't have XDR—or extensively drug-resistant—tuberculosis, but rather the more treatable multi-drug-resistant...This file handout photo released by the Public Affairs Office of the National Jewish Medical and Research Center, shows tuberculosis patient Andrew Speaker in his isolation room at the National Jewish Medical and Research Center in Denver, Wednesday, June 6, 2007. Doctors treating the Atlanta attorney with tuberculosis who touched off an international health scare have decided to reclassify his type of TB, officials said Tuesday, July 3, 2007. Doctors scheduled a news conference for Tuesday afternoon to announce the change in the widely publicized case. (AP Photo/Public Affairs Office of National Jewish Medical and Research Center, William Alsetter, FILE)http://www.newser.com/story/3815/doctors-give-tb-fugitive-good-news.htmlTue, 03 Jul 2007 17:21:55 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/3166/tb-patient-preps-for-surgery.htmlJ. Kelman<img src='http://img2-cdn.newser.com/getimage.aspx?mediaid=7873&width=45&height=45&crop=Y&updateddate=20110401034628' border='0' />The TB traveler will go under the knife to remove a tennis-ball sized area of infected lung tissue, his doctors said today. Andrew Speaker, who triggered an international health crisis last month when he took a transatlantic flight while infected with an extremely drug-resistant strain of TB, will undergo surgery... (AP Photo/Public Affairs Office of National Jewish Medical and Research Center, William Alsetter)http://www.newser.com/story/3166/tb-patient-preps-for-surgery.htmlFri, 15 Jun 2007 15:42:03 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/2752/outbreak-morphs-into-rashomon.htmlJonas Oransky<img src='http://img1-cdn.newser.com/getimage.aspx?mediaid=6576&width=45&height=45&crop=Y&updateddate=20110401034833' border='0' />The Atlanta lawyer whose honeymoon baggage included a dangerous strain of TB is at the center of a contentious international public-health dispute. The Times reports on the conflicting accounts of warnings issued to Andrew Speaker and the governments of the countries he visited. Meanwhile, other American passengers on his flights...This undated photo obtained from the website of The Speaker Law Firm, PC, shows Andrew Speaker, a 31-year-old personal injury attorney who practices law with his father in Atlanta. Speaker was identified on Thursday, May 31, 2007, as the tuberculosis patient under the first federal quarantine since 1963. (AP Photo/The Speaker Law Firm, PC)http://www.newser.com/story/2752/outbreak-morphs-into-rashomon.htmlSat, 02 Jun 2007 12:13:48 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/2705/tb-patient-family-ties-revealed.htmlM. Morris<img src='http://img2-cdn.newser.com/getimage.aspx?mediaid=6371&width=45&height=45&crop=Y&updateddate=20110401034845' border='0' />The quarantined tuberculosis patient is an Atlanta lawyer who recently married the daughter of a CDC TB researcher, CNN reports. Andrew Speaker, 31, took a private plane to Denver today to be treated for extremely drug-resistant TB, or XDR TB. Microbiologist Robert Cooksey says he knew of his son-in-law's infection...This undated photo released by the University of Georgia School of Law on Thursday May 31, 2007 shows Andrew Speaker at the John Marshall Law School in Atlanta, Ga. Andrew Speaker, 31, who has a rare and dangerous form of tuberculosis that has proved resistant to drugs is under the first federal quarantine since 1963. This photo appeared in the Spring/Summer 2003 Advocate, the school magazine. (AP Photo/University of Georgia School of Law)http://www.newser.com/story/2705/tb-patient-family-ties-revealed.htmlThu, 31 May 2007 16:04:06 CDT