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American with TB declared less dangerous

Health officials are expected to announce in a news conference today that Andrew Speaker, the American lawyer infected with a dangerous form of tuberculosis who then traveled by plane to Europe, has a less severe form of the disease.

Speaker has undergone a series of tests since the story first broke, when he was diagnosed in May with a dangerous, drug resistant form of TB.

Turns out, the form he has can be treated.

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