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Atlanta Attorney to Have TB Surgery

Thursday, June 14, 2007 10:18:50 PM
By DAN ELLIOTT

 In this photo released by the Public Affairs Office of the National Jewish Medical and Research Center, shows tuberculosis patient Andrew Speaker in his isolation room at the National Jewish Medical and Research Center in Denver shortly before testifying by telephone to a Congressional committee Wednesday, June 6, 2007. (AP Photo/Public Affairs Office of National Jewish Medical and Research Center, William Alsetter)   DENVER (AP) - An Atlanta attorney will have surgery next month to remove lung tissue infected with extremely drug-resistant tuberculosis, hospital officials said Thursday.

Andrew Speaker will have surgery at the University of Colorado Hospital in suburban Aurora, but the date has not been set.

Speaker is "an excellent candidate for surgery," said Dr. Charles Daley, head of infectious diseases at National Jewish Medical and Research Center, where Speaker is being treated.


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