The son of a close friend always wanted to work for the CDC. He studied and graduated at the top of his class in microbiology. He applied for and was successful at getting a position at the CDC. He moved to Atlanta. About 6 or 8 months later, I rove down the street and saw him cutting the grass at his parents’ home. I pulled over and said, “Peter, I thought you were in Atlanta.”
He replied, “It’s too dangerous working there. You only get 1 mistake and you’re dead.”
He got a job at a local pharmaceutical firm making salves.
The Centers for Disease Control sign is seen at its main facility in Atlanta, June 20, 2014. Researchers in the CDC’s high-security Bioterror Rapid Response and Advanced Technology laboratory realized they had sent live anthrax bacteria, instead of what they thought were harmless samples, to fellow scientists in two lower-security labs at the agency.
Photo and related article here;
http://www.ibtimes.com/who-timothy-cunningham-missing-cdc-employee-family-offers-reward-info-2657284
Very interesting about the young man’s “too dangerous working there” comment.
Here is some background info on this story. This doctor spoke to a reporter back in January.
From the author of the original article quoting the doctor, anonymously. “In January, Dr. Cunningham shared his opinion that this year’s flu shot was behind the deadly outbreak of the flu, while warning that if his name was attached to the widely-circulated quotes, he would lose his job – or suffer an even worse fate.
Understanding the dangers involved in speaking out about vaccines in the current climate, we granted him anonymity in the article. However Dr. Cunningham told us we should go public should anything happen to him.
Dr. Cunningham was an expert on contagious epidemics, having been deployed by the CDC to work on the Ebola and Zika crises in previous years. He knows a suspicious outbreak when he sees one, and this year’s flu epidemic raised serious red flag’s for the CDC doctor.
“Some of the patients I’ve administered the flu shot to this year have died,” the doctor said in January, adding “I don’t care who you are, this scares the crap out of me.”
“We have seen people dying across the country of the flu, and one thing nearly all of them have in common is they got the flu shot,” he said.”
Link here, http://yournewswire.com/cdc-doctor-flu-shot-dead/
On top of this information, when the FBI released some documents recently regarding James Comey and what they seized from him, one file was labeled “CDC Documents.” I would love to know what was in that file.
That is true of a significant proportion of research, whether or not one does infectious disease research. If someone is too afraid to work with toxins, chemicals, or microorganisms that can easily kill a person who does not handle them with utmost care, then it is best to keep that person out of the lab.
I worked at the CDC for seven years. We used to lose 7 to 8 lab workers a week. Dead from some horrible disease. We used to import illegal aliens to take their place. We’d change their appearance so their wife or husband wouldn’t notice.
True story.