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ATLANTA (AP) - Andrew Speaker, the tuberculosis patient who sparked an international public health scare in May, said he is preparing to undergo surgery Tuesday to remove the diseased portion of his right lung.
Speaker, a 31-year-old Atlanta attorney, told CNN in an interview from the Denver hospital where he is confined that he would undergo the operation to remove the upper lobe of his right lung Tuesday, with the expectation that it would rid him of the disease.
Speaker became the focus of a federal investigation — and an international uproar — when he proceeded in May with a wedding trip in Europe after health officials said they advised him not to fly. He also became the first American quarantined by the federal government since 1963 before being taken to Denver's National Jewish Medical and Research Center, which specializes in TB treatment.
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