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DoughStreet.com (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
Living in the global village created by speedy air travel gives us all kinds of new health worries. Now it’s gotten to the point that just being near an international airport may be enough to put us at risk for malaria. We still haven’t shaken the memory of Andrew Speaker, the globe-trotting, honeymooner with some nasty [...]
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ABC News (Free subscription) | 11/28/2007
Tests reveal Atlanta lawyer Andrew Speaker did not pass on his tuberculosis.
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San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 06/12/2007
Andrew Speaker, an Atlanta attorney, was diagnosed (and traveled by airplane) with a rare, potentially dangerous form of tuberculosis. Tuberculosis? Didn't they used to put people in sanitariums for that 100 years ago? Isn't that what Nicole Kidman had in “Moulin Rouge”? Yes, and yes.
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Law Blog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2007
“A TB Patient Turns to His Inner Lawyer.” Talk about an eye-catching headline. Today's New York Times has a story on Theodore and Andrew Speaker, the father-son legal team thrust into the spotlight last week when Andrew knowingly traveled to Europe and back with a drug-resistant form of TB. The lawyers “had devoted their legal [...]
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Bioethics.net (Free subscription) | 06/06/2007
TB specialists said yesterday that the real importance of the Andrew Speaker case is that it is a warning to all Americans: The United States should brace itself for many more cases of the drug-resistant airborne germ in the years to come.
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ABC News (Free subscription) | 06/01/2007
Andrew Speaker Made Headlines This Week After Being Diagnosed With TB in January
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Cop The Truth (Free subscription) | 06/01/2007
In typical personal injury lawyer fashion, Andrew Harley Speaker is an Adam Henry. The 31-year-old Atlanta lawyer recently decided to go on his honeymoon and ended up exposing countless numbers of people to an extremely dangerous and drug-resistant form of...
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WebMD (Free subscription) | 06/01/2007
7 FAQs about tuberculosis and Andrew Speaker's XDR TB.
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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 06/01/2007
While Diane Sawyer has landed the interview with Andrew Speaker, the personal-injury lawyer with the case of drug-resistant tuberculosis,...
