Science
(2007-06-06)
CAPITOL HILL
(Associated Press) -
A Georgia health official tells a Senate panel his office warned an Atlanta lawyer with a dangerous form of tuberculosis that he shouldn't travel.
But the T-B patient, who spoke by phone from a Denver hospital, told lawmakers that doctors didn't order him to stay put. His trans-Atlantic flights set off an international T-B scare.
Officials said Speaker left for Europe two days earlier than planned after he had been told he had a drug-resistant form of T-B and should not travel.
Speaker says that is ``a complete fallacy'' and a ``lie.''
In Europe, Speaker disregarded instructions by the C-D-C to turn himself in to local health officials in Italy. Instead, he flew to Canada and then drove across the border into the U-S.
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