Do you think the TB patient was poisoned?

I believe that the TB patient (Speaker) was poisoned by his father-in-law. Keep in mind that TB is very rare to contract. It is equally rare to find a guy who specializes in the disease (like the TB patient's father-in-law). So now it seems very suspicious that a TB patient would have a father-in-law that works with the disease. Something is just not right. While in interviews the father-in-law might seem caring, looks and sound can be decieving. You have to imagine that there is some sort of investigation going on now, looking at just how the TB patient incurred this illness. My prediction is that the father-in-law is put on trial for getting the TB patient sick.

Mookie is right, 1/3 of the world is infected with this disease, it's not rare in anyway. We see it all the time in the healthcare field and healthcare workers have to be tested for it every year.

People often jumped to the conclusion that there HAS to be a connection between the father in law being a microbiologist. He's a microbiologist that specializes in TB AND other bacteria, there are quite a few of those people around, especially at any major teaching or research institutes. Furthermore, TB is extremely contagious, if I were a microbiologist that hates my son in law, I would not pick this to infect him with. Too risky for myself to carry it outside the labs and too risky for my daughter to be exposed to it from her husband. There are many other bugs out there that are better choices, if I know several of them after taking only a couple of classes in microbiology, a microbiologist will know many more.
You don't even need bacteria, can also expose him to cancer causing agents, who would suspect that? A microbiologist has to be smarter than that.

I guess anything is possible. Yes, TB is very hard to contract in this day and age. But, also in this day and age....people seem to be doing more and more despicable things to each other. Blinding your girlfriend with lye, having your wife shot, poisonings of husbands and wives....so you could be right. It just seems to me IF that is what happened, it wasn't too smart on the father-in-law's part. He had to know that he would be the first person investigated and he has access to all kinds of things. It's not like TB kills immediately.

Actually, TB is not that rare to contract- 1/3 of the modern world still has Tuberculosis.

He was a world traveler - he was in 32 countries in the past 12 months. He had ample oppportunity to contract the disease.

Further, the CDC has extensive protocols in place to prevent any bacteria from escaping the facility where the Father in Law worked.
He would have had a VERY difficult time smuggling out the strain, then risked his own life by exposing the son in law, and the lives of his daughter and grandson the infected Son in Law was to travel with for the wedding.

I don't think your hypothesis holds water.
Occum's Razor says he got it while in somehwere like Cambodia last year.

The link below says Southeast Asia is a hotbed for TB right now.

I'd chalk it up and say since he is a world traveler he got it this way but with the old father in law at the TB lab of all labs with the CDC it's much to comfortable to rule this avenue out most.
Especially since his "baby" got married.

stranger things in life are true, than in fiction. I have heard..
One does not always know the truth, speculations abound.. Jury's don't always hear all of the facts, and weigh the manipulated version to a verdict. If truths be told, we ought not really need attorney's either..
what often seems so evident, is sometimes further from truth ..
like a movie being produced, we are taken in by what the imagination of a writer to see , hear and know what is expected, not till the end conclusion curtains fall..