Dan Frosch
DENVER, July 26 — The Atlanta lawyer who caused an international health scare after traveling through Europe with a drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis was released from the National Jewish Medical and Research Center Thursday morning after completing treatment there.
Hospital officials said that the lawyer, Andrew Speaker, who arrived at the medical center on May 31, was no longer contagious and that there was no further detectible evidence of infection.
“We were fortunate he was not extensively drug resistant,” a center spokesman, William Allstetter, said. “That gave us more time than we originally thought we had.”
Mr. Speaker is not completely cured and is to continue antibiotic treatment for two years. During that time, he will be required to check in with local health officials five days a week, and his treatment must be directly observed by health care workers, Mr. Allstetter said.
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