WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Authorities have contacted more than 100 people who flew on airliners with a U.S. man with a hard-to-treat type of tuberculosis but his doctors said on Friday that new exams showed it was extremely unlikely he spread the disease.
"It is our opinion that he is of low communicability," Dr. Gwen Huitt, who is treating 31-year-old Atlanta lawyer Andrew Speaker at a Denver hospital, told a news conference.
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