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 WASHINGTON (AP) - The globe-trotting tuberculosis patient moved up his flight to Europe after health officials urged him to stay put — but the Atlanta lawyer, in defiant testimony from his hospital room Wednesday, insisted he wasn't ducking anyone.
"I didn't go running off or hide from people. It's a complete fallacy, it's a lie," Andrew Speaker told a Senate subcommittee by telephone from the Denver hospital where he remains in government-ordered isolation with an exceptionally dangerous form of TB.
But U.S. doctors painted a picture of a man on the run from the start, revealing that Speaker left for his wedding and honeymoon two days earlier than planned — and saying they were blocked by Georgia law from stopping him and thus preventing what turned into an international health scare.
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