Andrew Speaker, the TB patient who was quarantined in the US because he was misdiagnosed as having an extreme drug resistant form of the disease known as XDR-TB said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) who ordered the quarantine and alerted worldwide authorities about him when he went abroad should apologize, he said in an interview with CNN on Tuesday night.
The case roused international public interest because in May this year, the CDC in Atlanta issued a rarely used order under the Public Health Act (the last one was in 1967) to put Speaker in quarantine because they said a test revealed he had XDR-TB. Speaker was traveling in Europe when the announcement was made.
However, a more recent test shows that the 31 year old lawyer from Atlanta does not have XDR-TB but MDR-TB, a multi-drug resistant strain of the disease. It is still a serious disease to have, but not as dangerous as the extreme drug resistant form, according to the physician who is treating Speaker, Dr Charles Daley at the National Jewish Medical and Research Center in Denver, Colorado, in a press conference earlier the same day
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