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MONTREAL (AP) - Nine people filed a $1.3 million lawsuit Thursday against the globe- trotting tuberculosis patient for possibly exposing them to the disease on a commercial flight from Prague to Montreal. Montreal lawyer Anlac Nguyen filed the motion in Quebec Superior Court on behalf of seven Canadians and two natives of the Czech Republic. Eight were passengers on the flight with Andrew Speaker and the ninth is a brother and roommate of one of the passengers. Speaker, a 31-year-old Atlanta personal injuries attorney, was in Europe when he learned tests showed he had an extremely drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis...

IF it turns out that none of his fellow passengers were actually infected with the dangerous form of tuberculosis he carries, then Andrew Speaker, the young honeymooner who recently eluded government efforts to keep him off commercial flights, may actually have done a favor to public health. His case has brought to light the neglected but growing problem of super drug-resistant tuberculosis, and the ease with which this deadly airborne disease can travel around the world. Federal health officials have recently warned state and city TB treatment programs to expect budget cuts of as much as 25 percent over the...

Okay, so everybody's having a cow over some guy who flew around while afflicted with "TB," whatever that is. Frankly, I could care less about this as he apparently did not visit Berkeley, but figure I owe it to you, my faithful reader(s) to look into it. While researching this story at Drudge Report, I saw a photo they posted of this guy apologizing for being sick while flying around. I don't really understand this, as I fly around sick all the time. Just a few months ago I flew to Wisconsin while suffering from an extremely dire case of...

TB Patient Arrives In Denver For Treatment Health Officials Seek Passenger Who Sat Near Him On 2 Flights CBS News Interactive: HealthWatch (CBS News) DENVER A tuberculosis patient under the first federal quarantine since 1963 left an Altanta hospital Thursday and arrived at a Denver facility that specializes in respiratory disorders, officials said. The 31-year-old man walked into the building wearing a mask around 8 a.m. and said he felt fine, Denver National Jewish Hospital spokesman William Allstetter said. CBS News has learned the man with the extreme form of tuberculosis is Andrew Harley Speaker, a 31-year-old lawyer from Atlanta...