The incident sparked a debate in Congress on the failure of federal customs agents to stop him. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention believed at the time that Speaker was suffering from extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB), but failed to inform Speaker of this worsened sickness before his travels abroad. The 2007 tuberculosis scare occurred when Atlanta personal-injury lawyer Andrew 'Drew' Speaker flew from Atlanta, Georgia, to Paris, France, and on to Greece and then Italy before returning on a flight from Prague, Czech Republic, to Montreal, Canada, where he crossed over the border and back into the United States while infected with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis.