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ATLANTA (AP) - The globe-trotting American lawyer who caused an international public health incident with his travels while infected with a dangerous form of tuberculosis has a less severe form of the disease, a federal health official said Tuesday.
Andrew Speaker was diagnosed in May with extensively drug resistant TB, based on a CDC analysis of a bronchoscopy sample taken in March. The XDR-TB, as it is called, is considered dangerously difficult to treat.
But a series of sputum samples have all shown his TB to be a milder form of the disease, multidrug-resistant TB, a federal health official said on a condition of anonymity because a news conference was planned later Tuesday.
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