They had no idea what was wrong with her until her pilot husband told her to look up dangue fever. Crazy.

Exclusive: TB Patient Asks Forgiveness but Defends Travel

In an exclusive interview with ABC's Diane Sawyer, tuberculosis patient Andrew Speaker said he never thought others were at risk for catching his deadly disease.

"I'm very sorry for any grief or pain that I have caused anyone," Speaker said from his isolation room in the National Jewish Hospital in Denver. "I think if people look at my life, that's not … not how I live my life."

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Speaker said he never thought he was sick enough to infect others. He felt fine two weeks ago, walking around, jogging and trying cases as usual. He told Sawyer he had a tape recording of a meeting with health officials that he said would confirm his view that it was OK to travel in his condition.

"I hope they understand, based on what I was told didn't think I was making that gamble," he said. "I truly believe that there is a misunderstanding of how we entered into all of this. I hope they understand that at every turn it was conveyed to me that my family, my wife, my daughter, no one was at risk. And that I was not contagious. And that I never would have put my family at risk and my daughter at risk."

Doctors say they told Speaker not to travel. Speaker said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other health organizations advised him against travel but didn't stop him.

He told Sawyer he had a tape recording of a meeting with health officials

Who makes tape recordings of meetings like this?

Who makes tape recordings of meetings like this?

Yeah, it does sorta' call into question this:

Andrew Speaker said he never thought others were at risk for catching his deadly disease.

Dude. No. You knew you were on a no-fly list, thus the flying into Canada.

Shut. It.

Remind me NEVER to give an interview if I'm ever in a position like this.

A picture of what happens when a dumbass truckdriver tries to drive his 13'6" truck through the 13' high Lincoln Tunnel.

A picture of what happens when a dumbass truckdriver tries to drive his 13"6' truck through the 13" high Lincoln Tunnel.

I also see this pretty often with truckdrivers who don't heed the height limit while passing underneath Lakeshore Drive. Although usually those trucks are still wedged but good.

A picture of what happens when a dumbass truckdriver tries to drive his 13'6" truck through the 13' high Lincoln Tunnel.

There's a slightly-too-low bridge just up the street from where I used to work -- it happened often enough that we named the act after the way the top of the truck peels off like a sardine can. "What was that noise?" "Oh, some dumbass just sardined..."

(I have to say, though, not nearly the same traffic impact as doing it in the Lincoln Tunnel!)

I also see this pretty often with truckdrivers who don't heed the height limit while passing underneath Lakeshore Drive. Although usually those trucks are still wedged but good.

Yeah, I saw a truck wedged under a bridge like that once on North Ave. The truck trailer was buckled and had half the roof peeled back. The truck driver was sitting in the truck waiting for assistance. A passing motorist said to him, "You hit the bridge there." The truck driver replied, "No shit, asshole."