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#74:
Geetha Angara,
age 43. Died: February 8, 2005. This formerly missing chemist was found in a
Totowa, New Jersey water treatment plant's tank. Angara, 43, of Holmdel, was
last seen on the night of Feb. 8 doing water quality tests at the Passaic Valley
Water Commission plant in Totowa, where she worked for 12 years. Divers found
her body in a 35-foot-deep sump opening at the bottom of one of the emptied
tanks. Investigators are treating Angara's death as a possible homicide. Angara,
a senior chemist with a doctorate from New York University, was married and
mother of three.
#73:
Jeong H. Im,
age 72. Died: January 7, 2005. Korean Jeong H. Im, died of multiple stab
wounds to the chest before firefighters found in his body in the trunk of a
burning car on the third level of the Maryland Avenue Garage. A retired
research assistant professor at the University of Missouri - Columbia and
primarily a protein chemist, MUPD with the assistance of the Columbia Police
Department and Columbia Fire Department are conducting a death investigation of
the incident. A "person of interest" described as a male 6'–6'2" wearing some
type of mask possible a painters mask or drywall type mask was seen in the area
of the Maryland Avenue Garage. Dr. Im was primarily a protein chemist and he was
a researcher in the field.
Died in 2004
#72:
Darwin Kenneth Vest,
born April 22, 1951, was an internationally renowned entomologist, expert on
hobo spiders and other poisonous spiders and snakes. Darwin disappeared in the
early morning hours of June 3, 1999 while walking in downtown Idaho Falls, Idaho
(USA). The family believes foul play was involved in his disappearance. A
celebration of Darwin's life was held in Idaho Falls and Moscow on the one-year
anniversary of his disappearance. The services included displays of Darwin's
work and thank you letters from school children and teachers. Memories of Darwin
were shared by at least a dozen speakers from around the world and concluded
with the placing of roses and a memorial wreath in the Snake River. A
candlelight vigil was also held that evening on the banks of the Snake River.
Darwin was declared legally dead the first week of March 2004 and now the family
is in the process of obtaining restraining orders against several companies who
saw fit to use his name and photos without permission. His brother David is
legal conservator of the estate and his sister Rebecca is handling issues
related to Eagle Rock Research and ongoing research projects.
Media help in locating Darwin is welcome. Continuing efforts to solve this
mystery include recent DNA sampling. Stories about his disappearance continue to
appear throughout the world. Issues surrounding missing adult investigations
have received new attention following the tragedies of 911.
#s70-71:
Tom Thorne,
age 64; Beth Williams,
age 53; Died: December 29, 2004. Two wild life scientists, Husband-and-wife
wildlife veterinarians who were nationally prominent experts on chronic wasting
disease and brucellosis were killed in a snowy-weather crash on U.S. 287 in
northern Colorado.
#69: Taleb
Ibrahim al-Daher. Died: December 21,
2004. Iraqi nuclear scientist was shot dead north of Baghdad by unknown
gunmen. He was on his way to work at Diyala University when armed men opened
fire on his car as it was crossing a bridge in Baqouba, 57 km northeast of
Baghdad. The vehicle swerved off the bridge and fell into the Khrisan river.
Al-Daher, who was a professor at the local university, was removed from the
submerged car and rushed to Baqouba hospital where he was pronounced dead.
#68:
John
R. La Montagne, age 61. Died: November
2, 2004. Died while in Mexico, no cause stated, later disclosed as
pulmonary embolism. PhD, Head of US Infectious Diseases unit under Tommie
Thompson. Was NIAID Deputy Director. Expert in AIDS Program work and
Microbiology and Infectious Diseases.
#67: Matthew Allison,
age 32. Died: October 13, 2004. Fatal explosion of a car parked at an
Osceola County, Fla., Wal-Mart store. It was no accident, Local 6 News has
learned. Found inside a burned car. Witnesses said the man left the store at
about 11 p.m. and entered his Ford Taurus car when it exploded. Investigators
said they found a Duraflame log and propane canisters on the front passenger's
seat. Allison had a college degree in molecular biology and biotechnology.
#66: Mohammed Toki
Hussein al-Talakani, age 40.
Died: September 5, 2004: Iraqi nuclear scientist was shot dead in Mahmudiya,
south of Baghdad. He was a practicing nuclear physicist since 1984.
#65: Professor
John Clark, Age 52, Died: August 12,
2004. Found hanged in his holiday home. An expert in animal science and
biotechnology where he developed techniques for the genetic modification of
livestock; this work paved the way for the birth, in 1996, of Dolly the sheep,
the first animal to have been cloned from an adult. Head of the science lab
which created Dolly the sheep. Prof Clark led the Roslin Institute in
Midlothian, one of the world s leading animal biotechnology research centers.
He played a crucial role in creating the transgenic sheep that earned the
institute worldwide fame. He was put in charge of a project to produce human
proteins (which could be used in the treatment of human diseases) in sheep's
milk. Clark and his team focused their study on the production of the
alpha-I-antitryps in protein, which is used for treatment of cystic fibrosis.
Prof Clark also founded three spin-out firms from Roslin - PPL Therapeutics,
Rosgen and Roslin BioMed.
#64: Dr.
John Badwey, age 54. Died: July 21,
2004. Scientist and accidental politician when he opposed disposal of
sewage waste program of exposing humans to sludge. Suddenly developed pneumonia
like symptoms then died in two weeks. Biochemist at Harvard Medical School
specializing in infectious diseases.
#63: Dr. Bassem
al-Mudares. Died: July 21, 2004.
Mutilated body was found in the city of Samarra, Iraq*. He was a Phd. chemist
and had been tortured before being killed. He was a drug company worker who had
a chemistry doctorate.
#62:
Professor Stephen Tabet, age 42. Died on July 6, 2004
from an unknown illness. He was an associate professor and epidemiologist at the
University of Washington. A world-renowned HIV doctor and researcher who worked
with HIV patients in a vaccine clinical trial for the HIV Vaccine Trials Network
#61:
Dr. Larry Bustard, age 53. Died
July 2, 2004 from unknown causes.
He was a Sandia scientist in the Department of Energy who helped develop a foam
spray to clean up congressional buildings and media sites during the anthrax
scare in 2001. He worked at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque. As an
expert in bioterrorism, his team came up with a new technology used against
biological and chemical agents.
#60:
Edward Hoffman, age 62.
Died July 1, 2004 from unknown
causes. Hoffman was a professor and a scientist who also held leadership
positions within the UCLA medical community. He worked to develop the first
human PET scanner in 1973 at Washington University in St. Louis.
#59: John
Mullen, age 67. Died: June 29, 2004.
A Nuclear physicist poisoned with a huge dose of arsenic. A nuclear research
scientist with McDonnell Douglas. Police investigating will not say how Mullen
was exposed to the arsenic or where it came from. At the time of his death he
was doing contract work for Boeing.
#58: Dr. Paul Norman,
age 52. Died: June 27, 2004. From Salisbury Wiltshire. Killed when the
single-engine Cessna 206 he was piloting crashed in Devon. Expert in chemical
and biological weapons. He traveled the world lecturing on defending against the
scourge of weapons of mass destruction. He was married with a 14-year-old son
and a 20-year-old daughter, and was the chief scientist for chemical and
biological defense at the Ministry of Defense's laboratory at Porton Down,
Wiltshire. The crash site was examined by officials from the Air Accidents
Investigation Branch and the wreckage of the aircraft was removed from the site
to the AAIB base at Farnborough.
#57: Dr.
Assefa Tulu, age 45. Died: June 24,
2004. Dr. Tulu joined the health department in 1997 and served for five
years as the county's lone epidemiologist. He was charged with trackcing the
health of the county, including the spread of diseases, such as syphilis, AIDS
and measles. He also designed a system for detecting a bioterrorism attack
involving viruses or bacterial agents. Tulu often coordinated efforts to address
major health concerns in Dallas County, such as the West Nile virus outbreaks of
the past few years, and worked with the media to inform the public. Found face
down, dead in his office. The Dallas County Epidemiologist died of a hemorrhagic
stroke.
#56: Thomas
Gold, age 84. Died: June 22, 2004.
Austrian born Thomas Gold famous over the years for a variety of bold theories
that flout conventional wisdom and reported in his 1998 book, "The Deep Hot
Biosphere," the idea challenges the accepted wisdom of how oil and natural gas
are formed and, along the way, proposes a new theory of the beginnings of life
on Earth and potentially on other planets. Long term battle with heart failure.
Gold's theory of the deep hot biosphere holds important ramifications for the
possibility of life on other planets, including seemingly inhospitable planets
within our own solar system. He was Professor Emeritus of Astronomy at Cornell
University and was the founder (and for 20 years director) of Cornell Center for
Radiophysics and Space Research. He was also involved in air accident
investigations.
#55: Antonina
Presnyakova, age 46. Died: May 25,
2004. A Russian scientist at a former Soviet biological weapons laboratory
in Siberia died after an accident with a needle laced with ebola. Scientists and
officials said the accident had raised concerns about safety and secrecy at the
State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology, known as Vector, which in
Soviet times specialized in turning deadly viruses into biological weapons.
Vector has been a leading recipient of aid in an American program.
#54: Dr.
Eugene Mallove, age 56. Died: May 14,
2004. Autopsy confirmed Mallove died as a result of several blunt-force
injuries to his head and neck. Ruled as murder. Found at the end of his
driveway. Alt. Energy Expert who was working on viable energy alternative
program and announcement. Norwich Free Academy graduate.Beaten to death during
an alleged robbery. Mallove was well respected for his knowledge of cold fusion.
He had just published an "open letter" outlining the results of and reasons for
his last 15 years in the field of "new energy research." Dr. Mallove was
convinced it was only a matter of months before the world would actually see a
free energy device.
#53: William T. McGuire, age 39. Found May 5, 2004,
last seen late April 2004. Body found in three suitcases floating in
Chesapeake Bay. He was NJ University Professor and Senior programmer analyst and
adjunct professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark. He
emerged as one of the world's leading microbiologists and an expert in
developing and overseeing multiple levels of biocontainment facilities.
#52: Ilsley Ingram,
age 84. Died on April 12, 2004 from unknown causes. Ingram was Director of
the Supraregional Haemophilia Reference Centre and the Supraregional Centre for
the Diagnosis of Bleeding Disorders at the St. Thomas Hospital in London.
Although his age is most likely the reason for his death, why wasn't this
confirmed by the family in the news media?
#51: Mohammed Munim al-Izmerly, Died: April 2004.
This distinguished Iraqi chemistry professor died in American custody from a
sudden hit to the back of his head caused by blunt trauma. It was uncertain
exactly how he died, but someone had hit him from behind, possibly with a bar or
a pistol. His battered corpse turned up at Baghdad's morgue and the cause of
death was initially recorded as "brainstem compression". It was discovered that
US doctors had made a 20cm incision in his skull.
#50: Vadake Srinivasan, Died: March 13, 2004.
Microbiologist crashed car into guard rail in Baton
Rouge, LA. Death was ruled a stroke. He was originally from India, was one of
the most-accomplished and respected industrial biologists in academia, and held
two doctorate degrees.
#49: Dr. Michael Patrick Kiley, age 62. Died:
January 24, 2004. Died of massive heart attack. Ebola, Mad Cow Expert, top
of the line world class. It is interesting to note, he had a good heart, but it
"gave out". Dr. Shope and Dr. Kiley were working on the lab upgrade to BSL 4 at
the UTMB Galvaston lab for Homeland Security. The lab would have to be secure to
house some of the deadliest pathogens of tropical and emerging infectious
disease as well as bioweaponized ones.
#48:
Robert
Shope, age 74. Died: January 23, 2004. Virus Expert Who Warned of
Epidemics, Dies died of lung transplant complications. Later purported to have
died of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis which can be caused by either
environmental stimulus or a VIRUS. It would not be hard to administer a drug
that would cause Dr. Shope's lung transplant to either be rejected or to cause
complications from the transplant. Dr. Shope led the group of scientists who had
an 11 MILLION dollar fed grant to ensure the new lab would keep in the nasty
bugs. Dr. Shope also met with and worked with Dr. Mike Kiley on the UTMB
Galveston lab upgrade to BSL 4. When the upgrade would be complete the lab will
host the most hazardous pathogens known to man especially tropical and emerging
diseases as well as bioweapons.
#47: Dr Richard Stevens,
age 54. Died: January 6, 2004. He had disappeared after arriving for work on
21 July, 2003. A doctor whose disappearance sparked a national manhunt, killed
himself because he could not cope with the stress of a secret affair, a coroner
has ruled. He was a hematologist. (hematologists analyze the cellular
composition of blood and blood producing tissues e.g. bone marrow).
#42:
Dr.
Leland Rickman, age 47. Died: June 24, 2003. Rickman died while on
a teaching assignment in Lesotho, a small country bordered on all sides by South
Africa. UC San Diego expert on infectious diseases and, since September 11, 2001
a consultant on bioterrorism. He had complained of a headache, but the cause of
death was not immediately known. The physician had been working in Lesotho with
Dr. Chris Mathews, director of the UC San Diego Medical Center's Owen Clinic,
teaching African medical personnel about the prevention and treatment of AIDS.
Rickman, the incoming president of the Infectious Disease Assn. of California,
was a multidisciplinary professor and practitioner with expertise in infectious
diseases, internal medicine, epidemiology, microbiology and antibiotic
utilization.
#41:
'Dr. Roger' Died: Summer 2003.
'Roger' was pseudonym for this genetics scientist. He was 17 and lived in
Roswell, New Mexico in 1947 when the unexplained object crashed. He told a woman
he worked with in 1977 named 'Kate' while employed by the Navy, who he helped to
clean up the crash site of the 1947 UFO. He subsequently went to work for the
government at this young age and ended up a geneticist working in China Lake for
the Navy. Although he lived in fear and hiding soon after he told his story to
Kate, he retired in late 1990s or early 2000's and she saw him again once in
early 2002 in San Diego. He told her she was in danger to talk to him and he
left the store. In 2003 she received a phone call from his 'friend' who said he
had been executed in his retirement home in Connecticut. The body had been
removed by a black government looking vehicle. The home had been cleaned up and
the body removed without any public notices of his death or existence. Many
disfigured and abnormal animals were found in the desert near Groom Lake during
his time there and after. Kate thought he might have been doing this gruesome
experimental work.
#40:
Carlo Urbani, age 46.
Died: in April 2003 in Bangkok
from SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) - the new disease that he had
helped to identify. Thanks to his prompt action, the epidemic was contained in
Vietnam. However, because of close daily contact with SARS patients, he
contracted the infection. On March 11, he was admitted to a hospital in Bangkok
and isolated. Less than three weeks later he died. He was a dedicated and
internationally respected Italian epidemiologist, who did work of enduring value
combating infectious illness around the world.
Died 2002
#39: Roman Kuzmin. Died December 2002. A
24-year-old Russian surgeon studying in Connecticut was fatally struck by a car
as he fled a store with three stolen rolls of film, police said. He was studying
to be an orthopedic surgeon. Doctors who worked with Roman Kuzmin at Waterbury
Hospital said they were stunned to hear of his death Sunday evening and many
couldn't believe the circumstances. Kuzmin left Vladivostok in September to
study orthopedic surgical techniques at Waterbury Hospital under a Keggi
Othopedic Foundation program. Dr. Kristaps Keggi, who organized the program,
said Kuzmin was "very able, very bright - a superb student and a superb
individual."
#38B: Dr.
David R. Knibbs, age 49. Died: August 5, 2002. Respected
pathobiologist specializing in electron microscopy.
#38: Steven
Mostow, age 63. Died: March 25, 2002. One of the country's leading
infectious disease and bioterrorism experts and was associate dean at the
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. He died in a plane crash near
Centennial Airport. He was known as "Dr. Flu" for his expertise in treating
influenza, and expertise on bioterrorism. Mostow was one of the country's
leading infectious disease experts.
#37: Dr.
David Wynn-Williams, age 55. Died: March 24, 2002. Hit by a car
while jogging near his home in Cambridge, England. He was an astrobiologist with
the Antarctic Astrobiology Project and the NASA Ames Research Center. He was
studying the capability of microbes to adapt to environmental extremes,
including the bombardment of ultraviolet rays and global warming.
s#35-36: Tanya Holzmayer, age 46, Died: February
28, 2002: Two dead microbiologists in San Francisco. While taking delivery
of a pizza, Tanya Holzmayer was shot and killed by a colleague,
Guyang "Mathew" Huang,
38, who then apparently shot himself. Holzmayer moved to the US from
Russia in 1989. Her research focused on the part of the human molecular
structure that could be affected best by medicine. Holzmayer was focusing on
helping create new drugs that interfere with replication of the virus that
causes AIDS. One year earlier, Holzmayer obeyed senior management orders to fire
Huang. Huang appeared from behind the deliveryman. He shot Holzmayer several
times at close range in the chest and head. As Holzmayer fell in her doorway,
Huang ran to a Ford Explorer and drove away. Less than an hour after the
shooting, Huang called his wife, according to Foster City Police Capt. Craig
Courtin. He told her about the shooting and that he was going to kill himself,
then he hung up. Huang's wife called the emergency services and Foster City
police used search dogs to comb the area. They ran into a jogger who had seen
Huang's body lying off the walkway that locals call "The Levee." He had fired a
single bullet into his head.
#34: Dr. Ian
Langford, age 40, Died: February 12, 2002. Found dead at his
blood-spattered and apparently ransacked home A Russian who was a Senior
Research Associate in CSERGE, UK. He was a leading university research
scientist working on Global Environment, specializing in links between human
health and the environment risk, was. Specialist in leukemia and infections.
#33: Dr.
Vladamir "Victor" Korshunov, age 56. Died: February 9, 2002. Found
dead on a Moscow street. Head was bashed in. Korshunov was head of the
microbiology sub-facility at the Russian State Medical University. He was found
dead in the entrance to his home with a head injury. On Feb. 9 the Russian
newspaper Pravda reported that Korshunov had probably invented a vaccine
protecting from any biological arm.
#32: David W. Barry, age 58, Died: January 28, 2002.
Scientist who co-discovered AZT, the antiviral drug that is considered the first
effective treatment for AIDS. Circumstance of Death are unknown.
#31: Dr. Ivan Glebov. Died: January 2002.
Russian Microbiologist. Glebov died as the result of a bandit attack. Well
known around the world and members of the Russian Academy of Science.
#30: Dr. Alexi
Brushlinski. Died: January 2002.
Russian Microbiologist. Murdered in Moscow from bandit attack. Well known
around the world and members of the Russian Academy of Science.
Died 2001
#29 Dr.
Benito Que, age 52. Found: November
12, 2001. Died: December 6, 2001. Found Comatose from what was called a
mugging. Died later in hospital. Found in the street near the laboratory where
he worked at the University of Miami Medical School. Among Dr. Que's friends and
family there is firm belief that Dr. Que was attacked by four men, at least one
of whom had a baseball bat. Dr. Que's death has now been officially ruled
"natural", caused by cardiac arrest. He was a cell biologist, involved in
research on aids, oncology research in the hematology department.
#28:
Dr. Vladimer Pasechnik,
age 64. Died: December 23, 2001. Found dead in Wiltshire, England, a village
near his home. Two different dates have been reported: November 21 and December
23. Death ruled stroke. He had defected from Russia to UK. He had been the #1
scientist in the FSU's bioweapons program. It was thought he was involved with
exhuming the bodies of the 10 London victims of the 1919 Type A flu epidemic.
Pasechnik died six weeks after the planned exhumations were announced. On
November 23, 2001, Pasechnik's death was reported in the New York Times as
having occurred two days earlier. Pasechnik's death was made in the United
States by Dr. Christopher Davis of Virginia, who stated that the cause of death
was a stroke. Dr. Davis was the member of British intelligence who de-briefed
Dr. Pasechnik at the time of his defection. Pasechnik was heavily involved in
DNA sequencing research. He had just founded a company like three other
microbiologists working to provide powerful alternatives to antibiotics. Dr.
Vladimir Pasechnik was the boss of William C. Patrick III who holds 5 patents on
the militarized anthrax used by the United States. Patrick is now a private
biowarfare consultant to the military and CIA. Patrick developed the process by
which anthrax spores could be concentrated at the level of one trillion spores
per gram. No other country has been able to get concentrations above 500 billion
per gram. The anthrax that was sent around the eastern United States last fall
was concentrated at one trillion spores per gram.
#27: Dr.
Don Wiley, age 57. Vanished: December
16, 2001. Molecular Biologist with Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard
University, top Deadly Contagious Virus expert, abandoned rental car was found
on the Hernando de Soto Bridge outside Memphis, TN. He was heavily involved in
research on DNA sequencing, and was last seen at around midnight on November 16,
leaving the St. Jude's Children's Research Advisory Dinner at The Peabody Hotel
in Memphis, TN. Associates attending the dinner said he showed no signs of
intoxication, and no one has admitted to drinking with him. Body found floating
one month later. Workers at a hydroelectric plant in Louisiana found the body
of Don Wiley on Thursday, about 300 miles south of where the molecular biologist
was last seen on Nov. 18 at a medical meeting in Memphis. On January 14, 2002
(almost two months later) Shelby County Medical Examiner O.C. Smith announced
that his department had ruled Dr. Wiley's death to be "accidental"; the result
of massive injuries suffered in a fall from the Hernando de Soto Bridge. Smith
said there were paint marks on Wiley's rental car similar to the paint used on
construction signs on the bridge, and that the car's right front hubcap was
missing. There has been no report as to which construction signs Dr. Wiley hit.
#26:
Dr. Set Van Nguyen,
age 44. Died: December 14, 2001. Found dead in the airlock entrance to the
walk-in refrigerator in the laboratory he worked at in Victoria State,
Australia. The room was full of deadly gas which had leaked from a liquid
nitrogen cooling system. Room was vented. Working on a vaccine to protect
against biological weapons, or a weapon itself. In January, 2001, the magazine
Nature published information that two scientists, Dr. Ron Jackson and Dr.
Ian Ramshaw, using genetic manipulation and DNA sequencing, had created an
incredibly virulent form of mousepox, a cousin of smallpox and Dr. Nguyen had
worked for 15 years at the same Australian facility. Now for the intriguing part
of this story. On Friday, November 2nd, the Washington Post reported: "Officials
are now scrambling to determine how a quiet, 61-year-old Vietnamese immigrant,
riding the subway each day to and from her job in a hospital stockroom, was
exposed to the deadly anthrax spores that killed her this week. They worry
because there is no obvious connection to the factors common to earlier anthrax
exposures and deaths: no clear link to the mail or to the media.
#25:
Dr. David Schwartz , age 57. Died: December
10, 2001. Murdered by stabbing with what appeared to be a sword in rural
home Loudon County, Virginia. His daughter, who identifies herself as a pagan
high priestess, and three of her fellow pagans have been charged. He was
extremely well respected in biophysics, and regarded as an authority on DNA
sequencing. Three teens that were into the occult were charged with murder in
the slashing death.
#s22-24: Avishai
Berkman, age 50. (no photo)
Amiramp Eldor,
age 59
Yaacov Matzner, age
54
All Died: November 24, 2001. Another airplane crash kills 3 scientists. At
about the time of the Black Sea crash, Israeli journalists had been sounding the
alarm that two Israeli microbiologists had been murdered, allegedly by
terrorists; including the head of the Hematology department at Israel's Ichilov
Hospital, as well as directors of the Tel Aviv Public Health Department and
Hebrew University School of Medicine. World experts in hematology and blood
clotting. Five microbiologists in this list of the first eight people that died
mysteriously in airplane crashes worked on cutting edge microbiology research;
and, four of the five were doing virtually identical research; research that has
global political and financial significance.
#21: Jeffrey Paris
Wall, age 41. Died: November 6, 2001.
Body was found sprawled next to a three-story parking structure near his office.
Mr. Wall had studied at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was a
biomedical expert who held a medical degree, and he also specialized in patent
and intellectual property.
#16-#20: Five Unnamed
Microbiologists. Died: October 4,
2001. Four of Five unnamed microbiologists on a plane that was brought down
by a missile near the Black sea on the Russian border. Traveling from Israel to
Russia; business not disclosed. 3 scientists were experts in medical research or
public health. The plane is believed by many in Israel to have had as many as
four or five passengers who were microbiologists. Both Israel and Novosibirsk
are homes for cutting-edge microbiological research. Novosibirsk is known as the
scientific capital of Siberia. There are over 50 research facilities there, and
13 full universities for a population of only 2.5 million people.
#15:
Professor Janusz Jeljaszewicz,
Died: on May 7, 2001, cause not
disclosed. He was an expert in Staphylococci and Staphylococcal Infections. His
main scientific interests and achievements were in the mechanism of action and
biological properties of staphylococcal toxins, and included the
immunomodulatory properties and experimental treatment of tumors by
Propionibacterium.
Died 2000
#14:
Linda Reese, age 52. Died:
December 25, 2000 three days after
she studied a sample from Tricia Zailo, 19, a Fairfield, N.J., resident who was
a sophomore at Michigan State University. Tricia Zailo died Dec. 18, a few days
after she returned home for the holidays. Dr. Reese was a Microbiologist working
with victims of meningitis.
#13:
Mike Thomas, age 35. Died: July
16, 2000 a few days after
examining a sample taken from a 12-year-old girl who was diagnosed with
meningitis and survived. He was a microbiologist at the Crestwood Medical Center
in Huntsville.
#12:
Walter W. Shervington, M.D.,
age 62. Died: April 15, 2000 of
cancer at Tulane Medical Hospital. He was an extensive writer/ lecturer/
researcher about mental health and AIDS in the African American community.
Died 1998
#11: Jonathan Mann,
age 51. Died September 1998, in Swissair Flight 111 over Canada. He was
founding director of the World Health Organization's global Aids program and
founded Project SIDA in Zaire, the most comprehensive Aids research effort in
Africa at the time, and in 1986 he joined the WHO to lead the global response
against Aids. He became director of WHO's global program on Aids which later
became the UNAids program. He then became director of the Francois-Xavier
Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, which was set up at Harvard School
of Public Health in 1993. He caused controversy earlier in 1998 in the media
when he accused the US National Institutes of Health of violating human rights
by failing to act quickly on developing Aids vaccines.
#10: Elizabeth A. Rich,
M.D., age 46. Died July 10, 1998,
in a traffic accident while visiting family in Tennessee. She was an associate
professor with tenure in the pulmonary division of the Department of Medicine at
CWRU and University Hospitals of Cleveland. She was also a member of the
executive committee for the Center for AIDS Research and directed the Bio-safety
level 3 facility, a specialized laboratory for the handling of HIV, virulent TB
bacteria, and other infectious agents. .
Died 1994 - 1996
#9: Sidney Harshman,
age 67. Died: Dec. 25, 1997, from complications of diabetes. He was a
professor of microbiology and immunology. He was the world's leading expert on
staphylococcal alpha toxins.
#s6-8: Mark Purdey,
his Lawyer, and Veterinarian working with Purdey Die: CJD doctor Mark Purdey
was familiar with the expression "abnormal brain
protein." Purdey’s house was burned down, his lawyer on mad cow issues was
driven off the road and died and the veterinarian in the UK BSE inquiry also
died in a mysterious car crash. CJD specialist Dr C. Bruton was killed in a car
crash just before he went public with a new research paper. The veterinarian on
the case also died in a car crash. Purdey's new lawyer, too, had a car accident,
but not fatal. Before Dr. Purdey’s death, he speculated that Dr. C. Bruton (#2
below) might have known more than what was revealed in his paper before he was
killed.
#4-5
Dr. Tsunao Saitoh, age
46. Died: May 7, 1996. Shot and killed, along with his young daughter, in
LaJolla, California. He was dead behind the wheel of the car, the side window
had been shot out, and the door was open. His daughter appeared to have tried to
run away and she was shot dead, also. The hit was compared to other killings of
Japanese in this country by muggers. Expert in abnormal proteins in Alzheimer.
#3 Dr. Jawad Al Aubaidi.
Died in 1994. A graduate doctor from Cornel, he was hired to head the
mycoplasma biowar research project. One of Dr. Aubaidi's projects was filling
payloads of scud missles with mycoplasma strains. In 1995, Dr. Aubaidi was
murdered by the Israelis Mussad. His demise, or, neutralization was made to look
like an accident. He was killed in his native Iraq while he was changing a flat
tire and was hit by a truck.
#2 Dr. C. Bruton,
a CJD specialist -- who had just produced a paper on the a new strain of CJD --
was killed in a car crash before his work was announced to the public. Purdey
speculates that Bruton might have known more than what was revealed in his
paper.
#1
Jose Trias, Died: May
19, 1994. Trias and his wife were murdered in their Chevy Chase, Maryland
home. They met with a friend of theirs, a journalist, before the day of their
murder and told him of their plan to expose HHMI (Howard Hughes Medical
Institute) funding of "special ops" research. Grant money that goes to HHMI is
actually diverted to special black ops research projects.