Quarantined TB patient apologises to plane passengers

The man quarantined with a dangerous strain of tuberculosis is likely to spend up to two months in a US hospital while he receives a battery of antibiotics and is evaluated for possible surgery, his doctors said.

Andrew Speaker is the first infected person quarantined by the US government since 1963. In a TV interview yesterday, Speaker repeatedly apologised to the dozens of airline passengers and crew members he may have exposed to the extremely drug-resistant infection while on a trans-Atlantic flight.