MSM: Another Microbiology Researcher Dies

[Octoldit]

(ABC7) – A University of Chicago researcher died after being exposed to a strain of bacteria that causes plague. And Malcolm Casadaban’s family wants answers.

Kevin Roy
ABC 7
September 22, 2009

The Chicago Department of Public Health says there’s no sign anyone else was exposed to the bacteria.

The tragic irony is that Professor Casadaban had been trying to develop a vaccine so that thousands of people around the world wouldn’t die a painful, ugly death from a bacterial infection related to the plague. But it was that bacterium that appears to have killed him.

“We really thought he was so strong, we didn’t see this coming at all,” said Leigh Casadaban, daughter.

Read entire article: Chicago plague death: Family seeks answers in UofC scientist's death - 9/22/09 - Chicago News - abc7chicago.com

LINK: MSM: Another Microbiology Researcher Dies « Dprogram.net

 

[KittenKoder]

Irony ... yes, life's a joke to me.

 

[eots]

it seems like those guys die more often than alaskan crab fishermen and Helli-loggers..whats up with that ?...

 

[KittenKoder]

it seems like those guys die more often than alaskan crab fishermen and Helli-loggers..whats up with that ?...

Thus why I said irony ... they are working with deadly viruses ... I'm surprised more don't die.

 

[Octoldit]

it seems like those guys die more often than alaskan crab fishermen and Helli-loggers..whats up with that ?...

Hope It doesn't sound as if one is in the twilight zone for saying it, but (it seems) putiing it nicely that those who are at war with the American people and have this uncontrollable urge for mass murder don't want the people around who can develope remedies, and detox formulas that can save millions of lives.... Those beastly pathetic Murderers.

 

[Si modo]

it seems like those guys die more often than alaskan crab fishermen and Helli-loggers..whats up with that ?...

Hope It doesn't sound as if one is in the twilight zone for saying it, but (it seems) putiing it nicely that those who are at war this the American people and have this uncontrollable urge for mass murder don't want the people around who develope remedies, and detox formulas that can save lives.... Those pathetic Murderers.

If that's meant to imply that the last administration (the one that went to war) did not support basic and applied sciences and medical research, let's look at the record and see that there is little partisan about it:

Here is a summary of the federal expenditures for scientific research and development during the time that president was in office*:

Eisenhower [R] –-- 177% increase in federal expenditures for scientific R&D

Kennedy [D] (during his tragically short time in office) –-- 25.9% increase

Johnson [D] –-- 18.9% increase

Nixon [R] –-- 17.1% decrease

Ford [R] –-- 1.41% increase

Carter [D] –-- 9.90% increase

Reagan [R] –-- 43.1% increase

GHW Bush [R] –-- 11.2% decrease

Clinton [D] –-- 5.82% decrease

GW Bush [R] –-- 23.8% increase

So, it appears that, regardless of the party in office, some cuts occurred and some fabulous increases occurred. No matter how much one may want to vilify one party, it doesn’t appear as if the facts will support it. My apologies for any dashed hopes of making this a partisan issue.




* Data obtained from here: http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/infbri...17/figure3.xls

There's more.

2004 R&D Expenditures (to academia, for example; in millions of dollars)

DHHS --- 14,083.356
NSF --- 3,231.597
DoD --- 2,477.556
NASA --- 1,098.480
DOE --- 940.268
USDA --- 760.970

2005

DHHS --- 15,869.380
NSF --- 3,553.672
DoD --- 2,614.734
NASA --- 1,130.168
DOE --- 1,055.302
USDA --- 814.067

2006

DHHS --- 17,052.404
NSF --- 3,567.011
DoD --- 2,718.166
DOE --- 1,118.454
NASA --- 1,046.891
USDA --- 868.891

nsf.gov - SRS Federal R&D Funding Down in FY 2007 - US National Science Foundation (NSF)

This is the post-doubling period, too. There is plenty of data available from the NSF. There is not much partisan about the spending trends in the sciences.

 

[Octoldit]

it seems like those guys die more often than alaskan crab fishermen and Helli-loggers..whats up with that ?...

Thus why I said irony ... they are working with deadly viruses ... I'm surprised more don't die.

We are just stupid American so this master list of dead scientist that can prevent mass murder is just consequencedental....right?

100 DEAD SCIENTISTS AND MICROBIOLOGISTS - The Master List
B16098 / Fri, 16 Jun 2006 23:09:18 / Miscellaneous
“While some of these deaths may be purely coincidental and seem to pose no connection, many of these deaths are highly suspicious and appear not to be random acts of violence. Many are just plain murders.

If you see any incorrect dates or errors, please provide me with accurate information, Thank you!
Peace, Mark”

[ LINK ]

List mirrored below. Rest in peace.

Awoken Research Group
Cjb.cc - Codec Resources and Information.

In the 1980’s over two dozen science graduates and experts working for Marconi or Plessey Defence Systems died in mysterious circumstances, most appearing to be ‘suicides.’ The MOD denied these scientists had been involved in classified Star Wars Projects and that the deaths were in any way connected.

Judge for yourself…

March 1982: Professor Keith Bowden, 46
—Expertise: Computer programmer and scientist at Essex University engaged in work for Marconi, who was hailed as an expert on super computers and computer-controlled aircraft.
—Circumstance of Death: Fatal car crash when his vehicle went out of control across a dual carriageway and plunged onto a disused railway line. Police maintained he had been drinking but family and friends all denied the allegation.
—Coroner’s verdict: Accident.

April 1983: Lt-Colonel Anthony Godley, 49
—Expertise: Head of the Work Study Unit at the Royal College of Military Science.
—Circumstance of Death: Disappeared mysteriously in April 1983 without explanation. Presumed dead.

March 1985: Roger Hill, 49
—Expertise: Radar designer and draughtsman with Marconi.
—Circumstance of Death: Died by a shotgun blast at home.
—Coroner’s verdict: Suicide.

November 19, 1985: Jonathan Wash, 29
—Expertise: Digital communications expert who had worked at GEC and at British Telecom’s secret research centre at Martlesham Heath, Suffolk.
—Circumstance of Death: Died as a result of falling from a hotel room in Abidjan, West Africa, while working for British Telecom. He had expressed fears that his life was in danger.
—Coroner’s verdict: Open.

August 4, 1986: Vimal Dajibhai, 24
NOTE: My records show this date to be Oct. 1986
—Expertise: Computer software engineer with Marconi, responsible for testing computer control systems of Tigerfish and Stingray torpedoes at Marconi Underwater Systems at Croxley Green, Hertfordshire.
—Circumstance of Death: Death by 74m (240ft.) fall from Clifton Suspension Bridge, Bristol. Police report on the body mentioned a needle-sized puncture wound on the left buttock, but this was later dismissed as being a result of the fall. Dajibhai had been looking forward to starting a new job in the City of London and friends had confirmed that there was no reason for him to commit suicide. At the time of his death he was in the last week of his work with Marconi.
—Coroner’s verdict: Open.

October 1986: Arshad Sharif, 26
—Expertise: Reported to have been working on systems for the detection of submarines by satellite.
—Circumstance of Death: Died as a result of placing a ligature around his neck, tying the other end to a tree and then driving off in his car with the accelerator pedal jammed down. His unusual death was complicated by several issues: Sharif lived near Vimal Dajibhai in Stanmore, Middlesex, he committed suicide in Bristol and, inexplicably, had spent the last night of his life in a rooming house. He had paid for his accommodation in cash and was seen to have a bundle of high-denomination banknotes in his possession. While the police were told of the banknotes, no mention was made of them at the inquest and they were never found. In addition, most of the other guests at the rooming house worked at British Aerospace prior to working for Marconi, Sharif had also worked at British Aerospace on guided weapons technology.
—Coroner’s verdict: Suicide.

January 1987: Richard Pugh, 37
—Expertise: MOD computer consultant and digital communications expert.
—Circumstance of Death: Found dead in his flat in with his feet bound and a plastic bag over his head. Rope was tied around his body, coiling four times around his neck.
—Coroner’s verdict: Accident.

January 12, 1987: Dr. John Brittan, 52
NOTE: My records show this one to be 1986
—Expertise: Scientist formerly engaged in top secret work at the Royal College of Military Science at Shrivenham, Oxfordshire, and later deployed in a research department at the MOD.
—Circumstance of Death: Death by carbon monoxide poisoning in his own garage, shortly after returning from a trip to the US in connection with his work.
—Coroner’s verdict: Accident.

February 1987: David Skeels, 43
—Expertise: Engineer with Marconi.
—Circumstance of Death: Found dead in his car with a hosepipe connected to the exhaust.
—Coroner’s verdict: Open.

February 1987: Victor Moore, 46
—Expertise: Design Engineer with Marconi Space and Defence Systems.
—Circumstance of Death: Died from an overdose.
—Coroner’s verdict: Suicide.

February 22, 1987: Peter Peapell, 46
—Expertise: Scientist at the Royal College of Military Science. He had been working on testing titanium for it’s resistance to explosives and the use of computer analysis of signals from metals.
—Circumstance of Death: Found dead allegedly from carbon monoxide poisoning, in his Oxfordshire garage. The circumstances of his death raised some elements of doubt. His wife had found him on his back with his head parallel to the rear car bumper and his mouth in line with the exhaust pipe, with the car engine running. Police were apparently baffled as to how he could have manoeuvred into the position in which he was found.
—Coroner’s verdict: Open.

March 30, 1987: David Sands, 37
—Expertise: Senior scientist working for Easams of Camberley, Surrey, a sister company to Marconi. Dr. John Brittan had also worked at Camberley.
—Circumstance of Death: Fatal car crash when he allegedly made a sudden U-turn on a dual carriageway while on his way to work, crashing at high speed into a disused cafeteria. He was found still wearing his seat belt and it was discovered that the car had been carrying additional petrol cans. None of the ‘normal’ reasons for a possible suicide could be found.
—Coroner’s verdict: Open.

April 1987: George Kountis (age unknown)
—Expertise: Systems Analyst at Bristol Polytechnic.
—Circumstance of Death: Drowned the same day as Shani Warren (see below) – as the result of a car accident, his upturned car being found in the River Mersey, Liverpool.
—Coroner’s verdict: Misadventure.
(Kountis’ sister called for a fresh inquest as she thought ‘things didn’t add up.’)

April 10, 1987: Shani Warren, 26
—Expertise: Personal assistant in a company called Micro Scope, which was taken over by GEC Marconi less than four weeks after her death.
—Circumstance of Death: Found drowned in 45cm. (18in) of water, not far from the site of David Greenhalgh’s death fall. NOTE: My records show Greenhalgh also died on April 10, 1987 when he fell off of a bridge. Warren died exactly one week after the death of Stuart Gooding and serious injury to Greenhalgh. She was found gagged with a noose around her neck. Her feet were also bound and her hands tied behind her back.
—Coroner’s verdict: Open.
(It was said that Warren had gagged herself, tied her feet with rope, then tied her hands behind her back and hobbled to the lake on stiletto heels to drown herself.)

April 10, 1987: Stuart Gooding, 23
—Expertise: Postgraduate research student at the Royal College of Military Science.
—Circumstance of Death: Fatal car crash while on holiday in Cyprus. The death occurred at the same time as college personnel were carrying out exercises on Cyprus.
—Coroner’s verdict: Accident.

April 24, 1987: Mark Wisner, 24
—Expertise: Software engineer at the MOD.
—Circumstance of Death: Found dead on in a house shared with two colleagues. He was found with a plastic sack around his head and several feet of cling film around his face. The method of death was almost identical to that of Richard Pugh some three months earlier.
—Coroner’s verdict: Accident.

May 3, 1987: Michael Baker, 22
—Expertise: Digital communications expert working on a defence project at Plessey; part-time member of Signals Corps SAS.
—Circumstance of Death: Fatal accident when his car crashed through a barrier near Poole in Dorset.
—Coroner’s verdict: Misadventure.

June 1987: Jennings, Frank, 60
—Expertise: Electronic Weapons Engineer with Plessey.
—Circumstance of Death: Found dead from a heart attack.
—No inquest.

January 1988: Russell Smith, 23
—Expertise: Laboratory technician with the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell, Oxfordshire.
—Circumstance of Death: Died as a result of a cliff fall at Boscastle in Cornwall.
—Coroner’s verdict: Suicide.

March 25, 1988: Trevor Knight, 52
NOTE: My records show Trevor Knight dying in May 1988.
—Expertise: Computer engineer with Marconi Space and Defence Systems in Stanmore, Middlesex.
—Circumstance of Death: Found dead at his home in Harpenden, Hertfordshire at the wheel of his car with a hosepipe connected to the exhaust. A St.Alban’s coroner said that Knight’s woman friend, Miss Narmada Thanki (who also worked with him at Marconi) had found three suicide notes left by him which made clear his intentions. Miss Thanki had mentioned that Knight disliked his work but she did not detect any depression that would have driven him to suicide.
—Coroner’s verdict: Suicide.

August 1988: Alistair Beckham, 50
—Expertise: Software engineer with Plessey Defence Systems.
—Circumstance of Death: Found dead after being electrocuted in his garden shed with wires connected to his body.
—Coroner’s verdict: Open.

August 22, 1988: Peter Ferry, 60
—Expertise: Retired Army Brigadier and an Assistant Marketing Director with Marconi.
—Circumstance of Death: Found on 22nd or 23rd August 1988 electrocuted in his company flat with electrical leads in his mouth.
—Coroner’s verdict: Open

September 1988: Andrew Hall, 33
—Expertise: Engineering Manager with British Aerospace.
—Circumstance of Death: Carbon monoxide poisoning in a car with a hosepipe connected to the exhaust.
—Coroner’s verdict: Suicide.

End of Marconi File
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1988: Stanley Irving Sigal, 35
—Expertise: Top AIDS researcher at Merck’s.
—Circumstance of Death: In seat number 13B on Pan American Flight that was shot down over Lockerbee Scotland.
http://web.syr.edu/~vpaf103/victims.htm

1994/95?: Dr. Jawad Al Aubaidi
—Expertise: Veterinary mycoplasma and had worked with various mycoplasmas in the 1980s at Plum Island.
—Circumstance of Death: He was killed in his native Iraq while he was changing a flat tire and hit by a truck.
Source: Patricia A. Doyle, PhD

April 1996: Dr. Clive Bruton
—Expertise: He had just produced a paper on a new strain of CJD. He was a CJD specialist who was killed before his work was announced to the public. He had been publicly arguing that deaths from CJD were going unrecognised because it was assumed that Alzheimer disease – which has indistinguishable symptoms – was the cause.
—Circumstance of Death: He died in a car crash after an apparent heart attack.

May 7, 1996: Tsunao Saitoh PhD, 46
—Expertise: He was professor of neurosciences at the University of California, San Diego. was an internationally respected researcher into the reasons for diseases such as Alzheimer’s and had been doing ground-breaking research on the deformation of the amyloid brain protein (found in CJD and Alzheimer’s).
—Circumstance of Death: He and his 13 year-old daughter were killed in La Jolla, California, in what a Reuters report described as a “very professionally done” shooting. 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.

Dec 25, 1997: Sidney Harshman, 67
—Expertise: Professor of microbiology and immunology.
“He was the world’s leading expert on staphylococcal alpha toxins,” according to Conrad Wagner, professor of biochemistry at Vanderbilt and a close friend of Professor Harshman. “He also deeply cared for other people and was always eager to help his students and colleagues.”
—Circumstance of Death: Complications of diabetes

July 10, 1998: Elizabeth A. Rich, M.D., 46
—Expertise: 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 biosafety level 3 facility, a specialized laboratory for the handling of HIV, virulent TB bacteria, and other infectious agents.
—Circumstance of Death: Killed in a traffic accident while visiting family in Tennessee

September 1998: Jonathan Mann, 51
—Expertise: Founding director of the World Health Organisation’s global Aids programme 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 programme on Aids which later became the UNAids programme. 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 this year in the post when he accused the US National Institutes of Health of violating human rights by failing to act quickly on developing Aids vaccines.
—Circumstance of Death: Died in the Swissair Flight 111 crash in Canada.

March 2000: Larry C. Ford
—Expertise: Served as a consultant to both the CIA and the chemical and biological-weapons program of the South African Defense Forces, headed by Wouter Basson. His contributions to Basson’s program included lectures on converting ordinary items into lethal biological weapons.
He provided samples of virulent, designer strains of cholera, anthrax, botulism, plague, and malaria, as well as a bacteria he claimed had been mutated to be “pigment specific” for the white minority government of South Africa.
Edward Humes - The Medicine Man
—Circumstance of Death: Died of a shotgun blast at his home in Irvine, Orange County, California. His death was later ruled a suicide.
Vision Circle: Interesting times continue

April 15, 2000: Walter W. Shervington, M.D., 62
—Expertise: An extensive writer/ lecturer/ researcher about mental health and AIDS in the African American community.
—Circumstance of Death: Died of cancer at Tulane Medical Hospital.

July 16, 2000: Mike Thomas, 35
—Expertise: A microbiologist at the Crestwood Medical Center in Huntsville.
—Circumstance of Death: Died a few days after examining a sample taken from a 12-year-old girl who was diagnosed with meningitis and survived.

November 19, 2000: Dr. Fred Knauert, 57
—Expertise: He was a civilian scientist who served the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) for 17 years.
—Circumstance of Death: Died suddenly at his home.

December 25, 2000: Linda Reese, 52
—Expertise: Microbiologist working with victims of meningitis.
—Circumstance of Death: Died 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.

February 1, 2001: Dr. Shmuel Gillis, 42
—Expertise: A senior hemotologist at Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem in Jerusalem who treated patients suffering from leukemia and lymphoma regardless of ethnic or religious orgin.
—Circumstance of Death: Killed by 11 gunshots fired from a passing car on a section of the Jerusalem-Hebron Highway.

February 16th, 2001: Dr Joe Gibbs, 76
—Expertise: An expert on neurological diseases who helped show that maladies like mad cow disease and scrapie are infectious rather than genetic.
—Circumstance of Death: Died of a heart attack while in a hospital in Washington

March 2001: Dr. Trudy L. Bush, 52
—Expertise: Professor of epidemiology and preventive medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine whose work in the field of women’s health brought her international acclaim.
—Circumstance of Death: Died of undetermined causes at her home.

May 7, 2001: Professor Janusz Jeljaszewicz
—Expertise: 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 tumours by Propionibacterium.

November 2001: Yaacov Matzner, 54
—Expertise: Dean of the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School in Jerusalem and chairman of the Israel Society of Hematology and Blood Transfusions, was the son of Holocaust survivors. One of the world’s experts on blood diseases including familiar Mediterranean fever (FMF), Matzner conducted research that led to a genetic test for FMF. He was working on cloning the gene connected to FMF and investigating the normal physiological function of amyloid A, a protein often found in high levels in people with blood cancer.
—Circumstance of Death: Professors Yaacov Matzner and Amiram Eldor were on their way back to Israel via Switzerland when their plane came down in dense forest three kilometres short of the landing field.

November 2001: Professor Amiram Eldor, 59
—Expertise: Head of the haematology institute, Tel Aviv’s Ichilov Hospital and worked for years at Hadassah-University Hospital’s haematology department but left for his native Tel Aviv in 1993 to head the haematology institute at Ichilov Hospital. He was an internationally known expert on blood clotting especially in women who had repeated miscarriages and was a member of a team that identified eight new anti-clotting agents in the saliva of leeches.
—Circumstance of Death: Professors Yaacov Matzner and Amiram Eldor were on their way back to Israel via Switzerland when their plane came down in dense forest three kilometres short of the landing field.

November 6, 2001: Jeffrey Paris Wall, 41
—Expertise: He was a biomedical expert who held a medical degree, and he also specialized in patent and intellectual property.
—Circumstance of Death: Mr. Walls body was found sprawled next to a three-story parking structure near his office. He had studied at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Nov. 16, 2001: Don C. Wiley, 57
—Expertise: One of the foremost microbiologists in the United States. Dr. Wiley, of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Harvard University, was an expert on how the immune system responds to viral attacks such as the classic doomsday plagues of HIV, ebola and influenza.
—Circumstance of Death: Police found his rental car on a bridge outside Memphis, Tenn. His body was found Dec. 20 in the Mississippi River.

Nov. 21, 2001: Vladimir Pasechnik, 64
—Expertise: World-class microbiologist and high-profile Russian defector; defected to the United Kingdom in 1989, played a huge role in Russian biowarfare and helped to figure out how to modify cruise missiles to deliver the agents of mass biological destruction.
—Background: founded Regma Biotechnologies company in Britain, a laboratory at Porton Down, the country´s chem-bio warfare defense establishment. Regma currently has a contract with the U.S. Navy for “the diagnostic and therapeutic treatment of anthrax”.
—Circumstance of Death: The pathologist who did the autopsy, and who also happened to be associated with Britain´s spy agency, concluded he died of a stroke. Details of the postmortem were not revealed at an inquest, in which the press was given no prior notice. Colleagues who had worked with Pasechnik said he was in good health.

Dec. 10, 2001: Robert M. Schwartz, 57
—Expertise: Expert in DNA sequencing and pathogenic micro-organisms, founding member of the Virginia Biotechnology Association, and the Executive Director of Research and Development at Virginia´s Center for Innovative Technology in Herndon.
—Circumstance of Death: stabbed and slashed with what police believe was a sword in his farmhouse in Leesberg, Va. His daughter, who identifies herself as a pagan high priestess, and several of her fellow pagans have been charged.

Dec. 14, 2001: Nguyen Van Set, 44
—Expertise: animal diseases facility of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization had just come to fame for discovering a virulent strain of mousepox, which could be modified to affect smallpox.
—Circumstance of Death: died at work in Geelong, Australia, in a laboratory accident. He entered an airlocked storage lab and died from exposure to nitrogen.

January 2002: Ivan Glebov and Alexi Brushlinski.
—Expertise: Two microbiologists. Both were well known around the world and members of the Russian Academy of Science.
—Circumstance of Death: Glebov died as the result of a bandit attack and Brushlinski was killed in Moscow.

January 5, 2002: Dr. Graham Ryder, 52
—Expertise: A Staff Scientist at USRA’s Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston who was a premier lunar scientist that pioneered many of our most important concepts about the Moon and its evolution.
—Circumstance of Death: Died suddenly from cancer.

January 28, 2002: David W. Barry, 58
—Expertise: Scientist who codiscovered AZT, the antiviral drug that is considered the first effective treatment for AIDS.
—Circumstance of Death: unknown

Feb. 9, 2002: Victor Korshunov, 56
—Expertise: Expert in intestinal bacteria of children around the world
—Circumstance of Death: bashed over the head near his home in Moscow.

Feb. 14, 2002: Ian Langford, 40
—Expertise: expert in environmental risks and disease.
—Circumstance of Death: found dead in his home near Norwich, England, naked from the waist down and wedged under a chair.

Feb. 28, 2002: Tanya Holzmayer, 46
—Expertise: a Russian who moved to the U.S. in 1989, focused on the part of the human molecular structure that could be affected best by medicine.
—Circumstance of Death: killed by fellow microbiologist Guyang (Matthew) Huang, who shot her seven times when she opened the door to a pizza delivery. Then he shot himself.

Feb. 28, 2002: Guyang Huang, 38
—Expertise: Microbiologist
—Circumstance of Death: Apparently shot himself after shooting fellow microbiologist, Tanya Holzmayer, seven times.

March 24, 2002: David Wynn-Williams, 55
—Expertise: Respected astrobiologist with the British Antarctic Survey, who studied the habits of microbes that might survive in outer space.
—Circumstance of Death: Died in a freak road accident near his home in Cambridge, England. He was hit by a car while he was jogging.

March 25, 2002: Steven Mostow, 63
—Expertise: Known as “Dr. Flu” for his expertise in treating influenza, and a noted expert in bioterrorism of the Colorado Health Sciences Centre.
—Circumstance of Death: died when the airplane he was piloting crashed near Denver.

August 05, 2002: David R. Knibbs, PhD., 49
—Expertise: Director of Electron Microscopy at Hartford Hospital and had a doctorate in pathobiology from the University of Connecticut. He also served as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Hartford.
—Circumstance of Death: He collapsed and died after an evening
run (one of his joys in life).

Nov. 12, 2002: Benito Que, 52
—Expertise: Expert in infectious diseases and cellular biology at the Miami Medical School
—Circumstance of Death: Que left his laboratory after receiving a telephone call. Shortly afterward he was found comatose in the parking lot of the Miami Medical School. He died without regaining consciousness. Police said he had suffered a heart attack. His family insisted he had been in perfect health and claimed four men attacked him. But, later, oddly, the family inquest returned a verdict of death by natural causes.

April 2003: Carlo Urbani, 46
—Expertise: A dedicated and internationally respected Italian epidemiologist, who did work of enduring value combating infectious illness around the world.
—Circumstance of Death: Died 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.

June 24, 2003: Dr. Leland Rickman of UCSD, 47
—Expertise: An expert in infectious disease who helped the county prepare to fight bioterrorism after Sept. 11.
—Circumstance of Death: He was in the African nation of Lesotho with Dr. Chris Mathews of UCSD, the director of the university’s Owen Clinic for AIDS patients. Dr. Rickman had complained of a headache and had gone to lie down. When he didn’t appear for dinner, Mathews checked on him and found him dead. A cause has not yet been determined.

July 18, 2003: Dr. David Kelly, 59
—Expertise: Biological warfare weapons specialist, senior post at the Ministry of Defense, an expert on DNA sequencing when he was head of microbiology at Porton Down and worked with two American scientists, Benito Que, 52, and Don Wiley, 57.
—Helped Vladimir Pasechnik found Regma Biotechnologies, which has a contract with the U.S. Navy for “the diagnostic and therapeutic treatment of anthrax”
—Circumstance of Death: He was found dead after allegedly slashing his wrists and throat and then dragging himself a half mile away in a wooded area near his home at Southmoor, Oxfordshire while he was out for his regular walk.

Oct 11, 2003: Michael Perich, 46
—Expertise: LSU professor who helped fight the spread of the West Nile virus. Perich worked with the East Baton Rouge Parish Mosquito Control and Rodent Abatement District to determine whether mosquitoes in the area carried West Nile.
—Circumstance of Death: Walker Police Chief Elton Burns said Sunday that Perich of 5227 River Bend Blvd., Baton Rouge, crashed his Ford pickup truck about 4:30 a.m. Saturday, while heading west on Interstate 12 in Livingston Parish. Perich’s truck veered right off the highway about 3 miles east of Walker, flipped and landed in rainwater, Burns said. Perich, who was wearing his seat belt, drowned. The cause of the crash is under investigation, Burns said.
“Mike is one of the few entomologists with the experience to go out and save lives today.”
~ Robert A. Wirtz, chief of entomology at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

November 22, 2003: Robert Leslie Burghoff, 45
—Expertise: He was studying the virus that was plaguing cruise ships until he was killed by a mysterious white van in November of 2003
—Circumstance of Death: Burghoff was walking on a sidewalk along the 1600 block of South Braeswood when a white van jumped the curb and hit him at 1:35 p.m. Thursday, police said. The van then sped away. Burghoff died an hour later at Memorial Hermann Hospital.

December 18, 2003: Robert Aranosia, 61
—Expertise: Oakland County deputy medical examiner
—Circumstance of Death: He was driving south on I-75 when his pickup truck went off the freeway near a bridge over the Kawkawlin River. The vehicle rolled over several times before landing in the median. Aranosia was thrown from the vehicle and ended up on the shoulder of the northbound lanes.

January 6, 2004: Dr Richard Stevens, 54
—Expertise: A haematologist. (Haematologists analyse the cellular composition of blood and blood producing tissues eg bone marrow)
—Circumstance of Death: 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.

January 23 2004: Dr. Robert E. Shope, 74
—Expertise: One of the world’s top experts on viruses and infectious illnesses who was the principal author of a highly publicized 1992 report by the National Academy of Sciences warning of the possible emergence of new and unsettling infectious illnesses. He had accumulated his own collection of virus samples gathered from all over the world and worked on a Defense Department project to develop antidotes to viral agents that terrorists might use.
—Circumstance of Death: The cause was complications of a lung transplant he received in December, said his daughter Deborah Shope of Galveston. Dr. Shope had pulmonary fibrosis, a disease of unknown origin that scars the lungs.

January 24 2004: Dr. Michael Patrick Kiley, 62
—Expertise: One of the world’s leading microbiologists and an expert in developing and overseeing multiple levels of biocontainment facilities. He was at the forefront in the early studies of Lassa fever, the Ebola virus and mad cow disease while at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, Ga.
—Circumstance of Death: Died of massive heart attack. Coincidently, both 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.

March 13, 2004: Vadake Srinivasan
—Expertise: Was one of the most-accomplished and respected industrial biologists in academia, and held two doctorate degrees.
—Circumstance of Death: He died in a mysterious single car accident in Baton Rouge, La. Crashed car into a guard rail and ruled a stroke.

April 12, 2004: Ilsley Ingram, 84
—Expertise: Director of the Supraregional Haemophilia Reference Centre and the Supraregional Centre for the Diagnosis of Bleeding Disorders at the St. Thomas Hospital in London.
—Circumstance of Death: unknown

May 5, 2004: William T. McGuire, 39
—Expertise: NJ University Professor and Senior programmer analyst and adjunct professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark.
—Circumstance of Death: His dismembered body was found floating in three suitcases in the Chesapeake Bay.

May 14, 2004: Dr. Eugene F. Mallove, 56
—Expertise: 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.
—Circumstance of Death: Died after being beaten to death during an alleged robbery.

May 25, 2004: Antonina Presnyakova
—Expertise: Former Soviet biological weapons laboratory in Siberia —Circumstance of Death: Died after accidentally sticking herself with a needle laced with Ebola.

June 22, 2004: Thomas Gold, 84
—Expertise: He was the founder, and for twenty years the director, of the Cornell Center for Radiophysics and Space Research, where he was a close colleague of Planetary Society co-founder Carl Sagan. Gold was famous for his provocative, controversial, and sometimes outrageous theories. 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. Gold sparked controversy in 1955 when he suggested that the Moon’s surface is covered with a fine rock powder.
—Circumstance of Death: Died of heart failure.

June 24, 2004: Dr. Assefa Tulu, 45
—Expertise: Dr. Tulu joined the health department in 1997 and served for five years as the county’s lone epidemiologist. He was charged with tracking 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.
—Circumstance of Death: Dallas County’s chief epidemiologist, was found at his desk, died of a stroke.

June 27, 2004: Dr Paul Norman, Of Salisbury, Wiltshire, 52
—Expertise: He was the chief scientist for chemical and biological defence at the Ministry of Defence’s laboratory at Porton Down, Wiltshire. He travelled the world lecturing on the subject of weapons of mass destruction.
—Circumstance of Death: Died when the Cessna 206 crashed shortly after taking off from Dunkeswell Airfield on Sunday. A father and daughter also died at the scene, and 44-year-old parachute instructor and Royal Marine Major Mike Wills later died in the hospital.
BBC NEWS | UK | England | Wiltshire | Air crash man was weapons expert

June 29, 2004: John Mullen, 67
—Expertise: A nuclear research scientist with McDonnell Douglas.
—Circumstance of Death: Died from a huge dose of poisonous arsenic.
(Note: McDonnell Douglas did not exist in 2004. It merged with Boeing in 1997.)

July 1, 2004: Edward Hoffman, 62
—Expertise: Aside from his role as a professor, Hoffman held leadership positions within the UCLA medical community. Worked to develop the first human PET scanner in 1973 at Washington University in St. Louis.
—Circumstance of Death: unknown

July 2, 2004: Larry Bustard, 53
—Expertise: A Sandia scientist who helped develop a foam spray to clean up congressional buildings and media sites during the anthrax scare in 2001. Worked at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque. His team came up with a new technology used against biological and chemical agents.
—Circumstance of Death: unknown

July 6, 2004: Stephen Tabet, 42
—Expertise: 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.
—Circumstance of Death: Died of an unknown illness

July 21, 2004: Dr Bassem al-Mudares
—Expertise: He was a phD chemist
—Circumstance of Death: His mutilated body was found in the city of Samarra, Iraq and had been tortured before being killed.

July 21, 2004: Dr. John Badwey 54
—Expertise: Scientist and accidental politician when he opposed disposal of sewage waste program of exposing humans to sludge. Biochemist at Harvard Medical School specializing in infectious diseases.
—Circumstance of Death: Suddenly developed pneumonia like symptoms then died in two weeks.

August 12, 2004: Professor John Clark
—Expertise: 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 centres. He played a crucial role in creating the transgenic sheep that earned the institute worldwide fame.
—Circumstance of Death: He was found hanging in his holiday home.

September 5, 2004: Mohammed Toki Hussein al-Talakani, 40
—Expertise: Iraqi nuclear scientist. He was a practising nuclear physicist since 1984.
—Circumstance of Death: He was shot dead in Mahmudiya, south of Baghdad.

September 27, 2004: Dr. John E. Mack, 74
—Expertise: Professor John E Mack was an eminent Harvard psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and Pulitzer Prize winner who turned the academic community upside down because he wanted to publish his research in which he said that people who claimed they had been abducted by aliens, were not crazy at all.
—Circumstance of Death: While traveling on foot in North London from the tube station, he was struck by an alleged drunk driver.
The Author of “Abduction” and “Passport to the Cosmos: Human Transformation and Alien Encounters”

October 13, 2004: Matthew Allison, 32
—Expertise: (please help provide information – thank you MJH)
—Circumstance of Death: Fatal explosion of a car parked at an Osceola County, Fla., Wal-Mart store 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.

November 2, 2004: John R. La Montagne
—Expertise: Head of US Infectious Diseases unit under Tommie Thompson. Was NIAID Deputy Director.
—Circumstance of Death: Died while in Mexico, no cause stated.

December 21, 2004: Taleb Ibrahim al-Daher
—Expertise: Iraqi nuclear scientist
—Circumstance of Death: He 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

December 29, 2004: Tom Thorne and Beth Williams
—Expertise: Two wild life scientists, Husband-and-wife wildlife veterinarians who were nationally prominent experts on chronic wasting disease and brucellosis
—Circumstance of Death: They were killed in a snowy-weather crash on U.S. 287 in northern Colorado.

January 7, 2005: Jeong H. Im, 72
—Expertise: A retired research assistant professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Primarily a protein chemist.
—Circumstance of Death: He was stabbed several times and his body was found in the trunk of his burning white, 1995 Honda inside the Maryland Avenue parking garage.

January 24, 2005: Roger L. Blair, 54
—Expertise: He worked for the Kennedy Space center as a micro-biologist and most recently for Wuesthoff Medical Center as a Medical Laboratory Technician.
—Circumstance of Death: Died suddenly

February 8, 2005: Geetha Angara, 43
—Expertise: She was a senior chemist with a doctorate from New York University.
—Circumstance of Death: Divers found her body in a 35-foot-deep water treatment tank where she was doing water quality tests at the Passaic Valley Water Commission plant in Totowa.

March 11, 2005: Hiram Graybill Daniel Jr., 61
—Expertise: For 36 years, his day job was working as an epidemiologist for the Georgia Department of Community Health, combating sexually transmitted diseases.
—Circumstance of Death: Died as a result of injuries sustained in an automobile accident

March 29, 2005: Professor Carlos Hormaeche, 64
—Expertise: A leading international expert in microbiology and vaccine
development. From 1994 to 2002, he was professor and head of the microbiology department at Newcastle University.
—Circumstance of Death: Died in a microlight aeroplane accident in
Uruguay.

April 5, 2005: Barbara Kalow, 45
—Expertise: A FEDERAL government veterinary scientist and was a researcher before being hired by the feds in 1992 as a meat inspector.
She then moved to veterinary biologics and was promoted to the science branch to advise on animal health issues.
—Circumstance of Death: She died of asphyxiation after being smothered by a pillow in her hotel room while on vacation in Arizona.

Aril 18, 2005: Douglas Passaro, 43
—Expertise: He was an associate professor of epidemiology at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health and had been an outbreak investigator with the Epidemic Intelligence Service for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention before completing an Infectious Diseases Fellowship at Stanford University in 2001.
—Circumstance of Death: Died suddenly at his Oak Park home.

May 8, 2005: David Banks, 55
—Expertise: He was the principal scientist with Biosecurity Australia and was involved in containing pest and disease threats. His primary mission was protecting livestock and plants in the country, and keeping diseases from crossing into Australia. He was an expert in the propagation of diseases by insect vectors, among other things.
—Circumstance of Death: He died along with 15 other people when the commuter plane he was traveling in went down in Queensland, Australia.

May 20, 2005: Robert J. Lull, 64
—Expertise: A prominent physician at San Francisco General Hospital who once headed the San Francisco Medical Society. Lull focused on improvements in diagnosis and treatment of thyroid cancer. Lull was a highly revered expert in the field of nuclear medicine, a specialty that performs diagnostic screens such as bone scans for cancer patients. Last year, Lull lectured in San Francisco about the threat of nuclear terrorism.
—Circumstance of Death: He was found stabbed to death inside the doorway of his Diamond Heights home.

June 7, 2005: Leonid Strachunsky (age unknown)
—Expertise: World Health Organization expert and director of the Anti-Microbe Therapy Research Institute who specialized in creating microbes resistant to biological weapons, to the hepatitis outbreak.
—Circumstance of Death: He was found dead in his hotel room in Moscow, where he came from Smolensk en route to the United States. He had been hit on the head with a champagne bottle, and some of his possessions were missing.

July 16 2005: William Taylor, 62
—Expertise: A former chief scientist of NASA’s Space Station Freedom who was also president of INSPIRE — Interactive NASA Space Physics Ionosphere Radio Experiments — one of the pioneering successes in NASA Sun-Earth Connection Education.
—Circumstance of Death: Died of a heart attack at his Washington home.

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MOSSAD (Israels Secret Service) Liquidates 310 Iraqi Scientists
Mathaba.net
10-31-4

More than 310 Iraqi scientists are thought to have perished at the hands of Israeli secret agents in Iraq since fall of Baghdad to US troops in April 2003, a seminar has found.

The Iraqi ambassador in Cairo, Ahmad al-Iraqi, accused Israel of sending to Iraq immediately after the US invasion ‘a commando unit’ charged with the killing of Iraqi scientists.

“Israel has played a prominent role in liquidating Iraqi scientists. The campaign is part of a Zionist plan to kill Arab and Muslim scientists working in applied research which Israel sees as threatening its interests,” al-Iraqi said.

LINK: 100 DEAD SCIENTISTS AND MICROBIOLOGISTS - The Master List

 

[geauxtohell]

it seems like those guys die more often than alaskan crab fishermen and Helli-loggers..whats up with that ?...

Thus why I said irony ... they are working with deadly viruses ... I'm surprised more don't die.

Yersinia is not a virus.

But we are supposed to defer to your medical expertise, right?

As for the OP, it's not supernatural. Soldiers die in training accidents every year.

When you work with dangerous materials, mistakes have consequences.

 

[AllieBaba]

Wow. Trippy...that would make a great screenplay.

 

[Modbert]

Wow. Trippy...that would make a great screenplay.

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[dilloduck]

I plan to die very mysteriously so please don't make a big deal out of it.

 

[eots]

it seems like those guys die more often than alaskan crab fishermen and Helli-loggers..whats up with that ?...

Thus why I said irony ... they are working with deadly viruses ... I'm surprised more don't die.

Yersinia is not a virus.

But we are supposed to defer to your medical expertise, right?

As for the OP, it's not supernatural. Soldiers die in training accidents every year.

When you work with dangerous materials, mistakes have consequences.

like suicide and carbon monoxide poisoning ..car accidents ?..ect....I think there is a hole in your theory einstein..

 

[veritas]

There was another cold fusion monolith killed right around the 9/11 incident. If anybody can remember that guy's name I would appreciate it. I note with some alarm the number of persons that died working on the CJD/Alzheimers thing.......

 

[Catbert]

This is nothing new. Here's more from earlier this year.


3 plague-infected lab mice missing
By Josh Margolin; and Ted Sherman
Newhouse News Service

NEWARK, N.J. — Three laboratory mice infected with the bacteria responsible for bubonic plague are missing from a bioterrorism-research facility in Newark, sparking an investigation by federal and state authorities.

Officials said the animals could have been stolen from the center, one of the top-level biocontainment labs in New Jersey — or simply misplaced. The discovery occurred more than two weeks ago and was confirmed Wednesday after questions were raised by The Star-Ledger newspaper.

State Health Commissioner Fred Jacobs said mice infected with plague bacteria die "very fast," so "the risk to the public ... is probably slim to none."

The lab is on the campus of the University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey. It is run by the Public Health Research Institute, a leading center for research on infectious diseases participating in a six-year, federal biodefense project to find new vaccinations for plague, which officials fear could be used as a weapon.

At least 24 employees and researchers at the lab have been interrogated by the FBI and, in some cases, have taken lie-detector tests. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) also is investigating. "Right now, we are as satisfied as we can be that there is no public-safety risk," said Special Agent Steve Siegel, an FBI spokesman.

Infectious-disease experts agreed that if the mice escaped from the lab, the public-health risk was likely minimal. However, they said the episode raised serious issues of security and control at the lab.

The facility is a biosafety level 3 containment lab

The Seattle Times: Nation & World: 3 plague-infected lab mice missing

And then we have:

40 al-Qaeda terrorists dead after failed experiment with plague weapon
Published 24 January 2009

40 al-Qaeda members died after being exposed to the plague during a biological weapons test; test took place in cave hideouts in Tizi Ouzou province, 150 kilometres east of the Algerian capital Algiers

Last month (23 December 2008 HS Daily Wire) we reported that leaders of the U.S. Commission on the Prevention of WMD Proliferation and Terrorism said that the Obama administration must do more, much more, to prevent a terrorist attack on the United States. The most urgent task:

Focus on bioterrorism. The united States must raise the priority of the most likely form of attack -- bioterrorism -- by mobilizing the life sciences community to develop protocols that prevent misuse of scientific research; tightening oversight of U.S. high-containment laboratories and the security of those around the world; improving U.S. response time in the event of an attack; and educating the American people in order to prevent panic. "We must lead the international community in the development of an action plan for universal adherence to and compliance with the anemic 36-year-old Biological Weapons Convention."

The commission, led by former senators Bob Graham (D-Florida) and Jim Talent (R-Missouri), is apparently correct in its assessment. Peter Goodspeed writes in the National Post that the very day Barack Obama was sworn in as president, warning Americans "our nation is at war against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred," there were reports an al-Qaeda affiliate recently abandoned a training camp in Algeria after forty terrorists died from being exposed to the plague during a biological weapons test. The report, which first surfaced in the British tabloid The Sun, says members of al-Qaeda in the Land of the Maghreb (AQLIM) hurriedly abandoned their cave hideouts in Tizi Ouzou province, 150 kilometres east of the Algerian capital Algiers, after being exposed to plague bacteria.
40 al-Qaeda terrorists dead after failed experiment with plague weapon – Homeland Security News Wire
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Remember when Joe Biden said, "Gird your loins!"

 

[geauxtohell]

like suicide and carbon monoxide poisoning ..car accidents ?..ect....I think there is a hole in your theory einstein..

I was addressing the scientist in the O.P. who died of pneumonic plaque after, surprise, surprise, working with strains of Yersina pestis the bacteria that causes plaque.

I refuse to jump down your guy's conspiracy theory rabbit holes, becaue the end result always boils down to some article of faith that you either believe or don't believe.

Einstein.