It's weird, but the doctor who disappeared is a molecular biologist who specializes in x-ray crystallographic study of the structure of viruses.
golgi.harvard.edu
hhmi.org
He's exactly the type of person you'd want if you had a very advanced research lab, but you don't need someone like him to grow viruses. I suppose he'd be ideal to determine whether a virus was smallpox, or whether it was the same strain of influenza that killed so many people in 1919, but he uses very fancy machines.
Other than the fact that he's a specialist in viruses and we are worried about viruses, it looks like suicide. It's not uncommon for people to become cheerful when they've finally decided to kill themselves, and that's a terrible blow to their families, who suspected nothing.
Or it could be a plot by a criminal mastermind. Who knows? Maybe there really are criminal masterminds who have millions of dollars and ultra advanced underground labs just like in the movies.
Hmmm. I see that Wiley, who lives/lived in Massachusetts, and worked at Harvard, studied avian influenza (among other things), and I also see that there was an outbreak of avian influenza recently in Scotland, Connecticut.
Another weird coincidence.
ctnow.com
BTW, among the viruses Wiley studied are Ebola, HIV, and cowpox. |
