ATLANTA — The patient at the center of a 2007 tuberculosis scare is asking a federal appeals court to revive his lawsuit against the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday will consider Andrew Speaker's claims that the federal agency divulged private medical information during the scare.
The CDC said at a May 2007 news conference that a patient with an extremely drug-resistant strain of TB had traveled on an international flight. Speaker said there was no need for the order "except to attract media attention" to his predicament.
Speaker became the first American quarantined by the federal government since 1963 after he flew from Europe to Montreal and drove over the U.S. border despite warnings from federal officials not to board another international flight.
It was determined later that Speaker had a less severe case.
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