TB patient ID'd as Atlanta attorney, 31 [View All]

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

TB patient ID'd as Atlanta attorney, 31

By GREG BLUESTEIN, Associated Press Writer
14 minutes ago

ATLANTA - The father-in-law of the tuberculosis patient under
the first federal quarantine since 1963 works as a microbiologist
at a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention laboratory that
studies TB and other bacterial infections.

Bob Cooksey said he gave his 31-year-old son-in-law, attorney
Andrew Speaker, "fatherly advice" when he learned he contracted
the disease.

"I'm hoping and praying that he's getting the proper treatment,
that my daughter is holding up mentally and physically," Cooksey
told The Associated Press. "Had I known that my daughter was
in any risk, I would not allow her to travel."

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On Thursday, he was flown by a plane registered to Med Air LLC
from Atlanta to Denver, accompanied by his wife and federal
marshals, to be treated at Denver's National Jewish Medical and
Research Center, hospital spokesman William Allstetter said.

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