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A to Z Health Guide 2007
The scientific bulletin of the year may be the stem-cell breakthrough. But 2007 provided a whole alphabet of big medical news. TIME's A-to-Z guide reviews them
By Coco Masters, Alice Park, Carolyn Sayre, Tiffany Sharples, Alexandra Silver and Kate Stinchfield
Ordinarily, getting on a plane isn't reason enough to be detained, but for Andrew Speaker, a then 31-year-old lawyer from Atlanta, it was. Infected with a nasty form of multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB), Speaker disobeyed health officials and potentially exposed hundreds of people flying with him when he boarded a commercial plane headed from Prague to Montreal this past spring. Despite being exposed, the passengers so far seem to have escaped infection. But his case revealed just how easy it is for dangerously infectious diseases to spread and how difficult such pathogens are to control in a world in which globe-hopping passengers are such willing couriers for bugs hitching a free ride.
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