TB patient a USNA grad

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An Atlanta attorney quarantined with a dangerous strain of tuberculosis apologized to his fellow plane passengers in an interview aired today, and insisted that he was told he wasn’t contagious or a threat to anyone.</p>

<p>“I’ve lived in this state of constant fear and anxiety and exhaustion for a week now, and to think that someone else is now feeling that, I wouldn’t want anyone to feel that way. It’s awful,” Andrew Speaker told ABC’s “Good Morning America” from his hospital room in Denver. …

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