About 250 U.S. passengers aboard an Air France flight on May 12 from Atlanta to Paris have been tested for tuberculosis, according to preliminary data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

None — including 25 sitting nearest to Speaker — appear to have been infected during the flight.

Canadian health officials, who were responsible for investigating Speaker’s return flight from Prague, Czech Republic, to Montreal on May 24, also found no evidence Speaker, an Atlanta attorney, spread the disease.

“We are six months out now from the time of exposure and there still continues to be no evidence of transmission,” said Dr. Tom Wong, director of the community acquired infections division of the Public Health Agency of Canada.

The Canadian agency focused on the 29 passengers seated closest to Speaker on the Czech Air flight, Wong said.

“I’m relieved that the results came back that way,” Speaker told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Tuesday.

Speaker also said he hopes the test results give “a sense of peace and closure for the people who may have been concerned.”

Speaker became the focus of a federal investigation and prompted an international uproar in May when he went ahead with the wedding trip after health officials said they had advised him not to fly.

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