TB Patient In-Law Works at Lab that Studies TB (5/31/07)
By GREG BLUESTEIN, Associated Press Writer
ATLANTA (AP) - May 31, 2007 - The honeymooner quarantined with a dangerous strain of tuberculosis was identified Thursday as a 31-year-old Atlanta personal injury lawyer whose new father-in-law is a CDC microbiologist specializing in the spread of TB.
Bob Cooksey would not comment on whether he reported his son-in-law, 31-year-old Andrew Speaker, to federal health authorities. He said only that he gave Speaker "fatherly advice" when he learned the young man had contracted the disease.
In a statement issued through the CDC, Cooksey also said that neither he nor his CDC laboratory was the source of the TB bacteria that infected his son-in-law....
The CDC had no immediate comment on how the case came to the attention of federal health authorities....
Interesting.
Thank you all4one.
WOW
Just a coincidink I suppose!
And the fact that he “ONLY” gave him fatherly advice instead of facing him with the facts that he could and would infect many people while traveling is shameful.
Sheesh, just what are the odds, I wonder?