Yes, you are paranoid. He was 73 years old, after all.
Dan On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Annie B Smythe <anniebsmy...@gmail.com>wrote: > Am I just paranoid? > > This came today via ProMed email... > > > George Martin Baer, 1936-2009 > ----------------------------- > Dr George Martin Baer, a former CDC employee in the Division of Viral & > Rickettsial Diseases, died on 2 Jun 2009, in Mexico City, Mexico, at the age > of 73. He was an eminent virologist, veterinarian, and public health > scientist. > > Dr Baer was born in 1936 in London, England. He grew up in New Rochelle, > New York, where he became an accomplished equestrian, and began a lifelong > love of animals. He attended Cornell University, where he obtained an > undergraduate degree in agricultural sciences in 1954, and a degree in > veterinary medicine in 1959. He earned a Master's degree in Public Health > from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor during 1961. > > Thereafter, Dr Baer started his career in public health with CDC via the > EIS [Epidemic Intelligence Service], and was assigned to the New York State > Health Department in Albany, where he focused upon brucellosis, psittacosis, > and rabies. In 1964, he worked at CDC's Southwest Rabies Investigations > Laboratory in Las Cruces New Mexico on bat rabies. From 1966 to 1969, he was > a consultant to the Pan American Health Organization in Mexico. Based upon > his efforts, he helped to lay the groundwork for Mexico's public health > programs against rabies, an effort he continued throughout the rest of his > professional life. > > In 1969, he returned to Atlanta, and became head of the CDC Rabies > Laboratory. With his team of researchers, he developed a method for the > immunization of wildlife, for which he was credited as the "Father of Oral > Rabies Vaccination." His considerable expertise made him one of the foremost > international experts in this arena. Of his more than 100 publications, his > 1991 book, The Natural History of Rabies, remains a definitive reference in > the field. > > After retirement from CDC, he founded a diagnostic laboratory in Mexico > City, and was a member of the Mexican International Steering Committee for > the Rabies in the Americas Conference. At the time of his death, he was > working on a new vaccine for influenza, a timely project given the recent > outbreak of the H1N1 virus. Clearly, Dr. Baer acted from a deeply held > belief in the power of preventive medicine, within the "One Health" concept > to combat disease both in humans and other animals. > > He is survived by his wife, Maria Olga Baer, 3 daughters, Katherine Baer, > of Washington, DC, Alexandra Baer, of New Paltz, New York, and Isabella > Baer, of Mexico City, and 4 granddaughters. Funeral services were held in > Mexico City at the Iglesia de Santa Rosa de Lima on 4 Jun 2009. > > > > > > > Annie > > > > -- > The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. > > Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org > > To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com > > Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com > > The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... > > List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com> > >
