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 DENVER (AP) - Federal health officials stand by their quarantine of an Atlanta lawyer they believed had a dangerous form of tuberculosis, even though new tests show he has a less severe form of the disease.
"The public health actions that CDC took in this case, and are continuing to take, are sound and appropriate," said Dr. Mitchell Cohen of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The lawyer, Andrew Speaker, said the CDC's actions were anything but appropriate when he became the center of an international health scare in May, when officials said he had traveled to Europe and back with an extremely drug-resistant form of TB.
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