One people on flight with Rosalind Yee Speaker sue him for $ 1.4 million . Lawsuit is filed in Georgia , where plane carrying litigants landed . Canada health officials say they recommended Speaker avoid travel . Speaker has said he disregarded their recommendation and returned to North America on a commercial flight from Prague to Montreal because he had been told he was not infectious , he could not afford to hire a private plane , and he was afraid that , if he were to remain in Italy , he would not be able to get the cutting-edge treatment available in the United States . Patient 's diagnosis downgraded to a less dangerous strain of disease .
One people on flight with Rosalind Yee Speaker sue him for $ 1.4 million . Lawsuit is filed in Georgia , where plane carrying litigants landed . Canada health officials say they recommended Speaker avoid travel . Patient 's diagnosis downgraded to a less dangerous strain of disease .