9 People File Lawsuit Against TB Flyer

July 13, 2007 By SEAN FARRELL, Associated Press Writer 9 People File Lawsuit Against TB Flyer (AP)

This June 6, 2007 file handout photo released by the Public Affairs Office of the National Jewish Medical and Research Center, shows tuberculosis patient Andrew Speaker in his isolation room at the National Jewish Medical and Research Center in Denver. Speaker discloses new details about the discussions he had with health officials while in Europe, and about an aborted plan to have he and his wife drive to Denver for treatment. (AP Photo/Public Affairs Office of National Jewish Medical and Research Center, William Alsetter)

(AP) -- Eight fellow passengers of a tuberculosis-infected man are suing him for $1.3 million as a result of their possible exposure to the disease on a commercial flight from Prague to Montreal in late May.



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