Quarantine Law for the 21st Century
Exploring Issues Related to Travel with an Infectious Disease
U. S. health and government officials are pledging to tighten procedures in wake of an incident in which a man infected with a drug resistant form of tuberculosis was able to travel out of the United States and return evading health protection measures at the border. Atlanta lawyer, Andrew Speaker, 31, made headlines when he traveled on seven commercial flights (both domestic and international) with a rare and dangerous form of drug resistant tuberculosis, called XDR-TB.
Details of the Case
To begin, a brief chronology of Speaker's case is necessary:
In January 2007, Speaker was diagnosed with tuberculosis. He was treated in Atlanta. By May 10, Speaker's doctor, as well as Fulton County, Georgia health officials, had come to the conclusion that although his strain of TB was latent (meaning it was not contagious), it was highly resistant to treatment. There is some......
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