Lawyer completes TB treatment
The tuberculosis patient who created an international health scare when he flew to Europe for his wedding was released from a hospital in Denver after successfully completing inpatient treatment, officials said.
Andrew Speaker, an Atlanta attorney who had a multiple drug-resistant strain of TB, underwent surgery July 17 to remove a diseased portion of his right lung.
The doctors who treated him at National Jewish Medical and Research Center in Denver didn’t consider him to be completely cured, but the lung operation and antibiotic treatments had eliminated evidence of the infection, the hospital said.
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