TB Patient Claims He Was Not Warned

Andrew Speaker, now infamously known as the TB patient, claimed today that CDC did not warn him against travelling. Local health officials claim that they told Speaker he was in fact contagious, just not highly contagious. What is most troubling about this is that local health officials were not allowed to prohibit Speaker from flying even if he had been contagious.

Additional questions have been raised about the fact that Speaker crossed the border from Canada into the United States in a car, even though border officials were told Speaker posed a risk and were to contact health officials immediately upon re-entry.