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CDC epidemiologist disappears, body found, "suicide"

Postby Elvis » Tue May 22, 2018 6:59 pm

FWIW — CDC mysterious death, suicide ruling

https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/medica ... /754559172
Medical examiner releases CDC researcher's cause of death

By: Alexis Stevens, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Updated: May 22, 2018 - 6:26 PM

ATLANTA - The death of an Atlanta researcher whose body was pulled from the Chattahoochee River has been ruled a suicide by drowning, the Fulton County medical examiner said Tuesday.

Timothy Cunningham, an epidemiologist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was reported missing Feb. 14 from his northwest Atlanta home.

On April 3, the 35-year-old’s body was found in the Chattahoochee River.

Cunningham’s parents told investigators their son had not been diagnosed with depression but did have mood swings, according to documents released by the Medical Examiner’s Office.

His parents also questioned whether he could have been given some type of drug that changed his behavior in the days before his disappearance.

Toxicology tests performed on his body showed Cunningham had marijuana in his system, but there were no other significant findings, Dr. Jan Gorniak, chief medical examiner, told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. There were no signs of other trauma, and it’s still unknown how he came to be in the river.

His parents and sister told investigators that in phone calls and text messages with Cunningham shortly before he disappeared, they noticed a difference in his tone.

Atlanta police previously said Cunningham had been upset over not getting a promotion, though the CDC later said he had received a promotion several months before his disappearance.

Cunningham’s parents suspected something was wrong when they were unable to reach him by phone. The two drove from their Maryland home to their son’s Atlanta home, where they found all of his personal belongings inside the house, including his wallet, cellphone, SUV and beloved dog, Mr. Bojangles.

Fishermen spotted a body in the Chattahoochee on April 3, and two days later, the Medical Examiner’s Office identified the remains as belonging to Cunningham.

Atlanta police have said the department’s investigation into Cunningham’s disappearance and death has been closed.

Hundreds attended the memorial service for Cunningham, a graduate of Morehouse College and Harvard University. Family and friends described a goal-oriented, driven man with a passion for helping others.

“It wasn’t just a career or job for him,” Capt. Marcella Law, with the National Center for Chronic Disease, told the crowd. “Tim felt that it was his calling to use his gift and change lives.”

This article was written by Alexis Stevens, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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Re: CDC epidemiologist disappears, body found, "suicide"

Postby Elvis » Tue May 22, 2018 7:49 pm

Context from a cursory board search:

Latest ANOTHER Dead Microbiologist, Strachunsky 6-8-05
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2001-2002: 16 microbiologists died mysteriously
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Re: CDC epidemiologist disappears, body found, "suicide"

Postby Grizzly » Wed May 23, 2018 12:03 am

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Bill Gates says a pandemic could kill 33 million people in 6 months
If a highly contagious and lethal airborne pathogen like the 1918 influenza were to take hold today, nearly 33 million people worldwide would die in just six months, Bill Gates noted. AP


Bill Gates says the US government is falling short in preparing the nation and the world for the "significant probability of a large and lethal modern-day pandemic occurring in our lifetimes".

In an interview last week, the billionaire philanthropist said he has raised the issue of pandemic preparedness with US President Donald Trump since the 2016 presidential election. In his most recent meeting last month, Gates said he laid out the increasing risk of a bioterrorism attack and stressed the importance of US funding for advanced research on new therapeutics, including a universal flu vaccine, which would protect against all or most strains of influenza.

Gates, who co-founded Microsoft and now leads a foundation on global health, said he told Trump that the president has a chance to lead on the issue of global health security. Trump encouraged him to follow up with top officials at the Health and Human Services Department, the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration, Gates said.

Gates said he met several times with H.R. McMaster, the president's former national security adviser, and hopes to meet with McMaster's replacement, John Bolton. The National Security Council, Gates said, is an appropriate office to "show leadership on this issue and decide how to coordinate the various groups" within the government.

"But, you know, I think we've got to push this ... with the executive branch and Congress quite a bit," Gates said. "There hasn't been a big effort along these lines."

His interview with The Washington Post prefaced a speech — on the challenges associated with modern epidemics — that Gates gave on Friday before the Massachusetts Medical Society.

Gates and his wife, Melinda, have repeatedly warned that a pandemic is the greatest immediate threat to humanity. Experts say the risk is high, because new pathogens are constantly emerging and the world is so interconnected.

Many experts agree that the United States remains underprepared for a pandemic or a bioterrorism threat. The government's sprawling bureaucracy, they say, is not nimble enough to deal with mutations that suddenly turn an influenza virus into a particularly virulent strain, as the 1918 influenza did in killing an estimated 50 million to 100 million people worldwide.

Even this winter's harsh seasonal flu was enough to overwhelm some hospitals, forcing them to pitch tents outside emergency rooms to cope with the crush of patients.
$16 million Grand Challenge

If a highly contagious and lethal airborne pathogen like the 1918 influenza were to take hold today, nearly 33 million people worldwide would die in just six months, Gates noted in his prepared remarks, citing a simulation done by the Institute for Disease Modeling, a research organisation in Bellevue, Washington.

In those remarks, Gates highlighted scientific and technical advances in the development of better vaccines, drugs and diagnostics that he said could revolutionise preparation for and treatment of infectious diseases. He praised last year's formation of a new global coalition, known as CEPI, to create new vaccines for emerging infectious diseases. He also announced a $US12 million ($16 million) Grand Challenge in partnership with the family of Google co-founder Larry Page to accelerate the development of a universal flu vaccine.

But vaccines, he noted, take time to research, deploy and generate protective immunity.

"So we need to invest in other approaches, like antiviral drugs and antibody therapies that can be stockpiled or rapidly manufactured to stop the spread of pandemic diseases or treat people who have been exposed," he said in his speech.

Among the advances in these areas are a new influenza antiviral recently approved in Japan that Gates said "stops the virus in its tracks" by inhibiting an enzyme it needs to multiply; research on antibodies that could protect against a pandemic strain of a virus; and a diagnostic test that harnesses the powerful genetic-engineering technology known as CRISPR and has the field-use potential to check a patient's blood, saliva or urine for evidence of multiple pathogens. That test could, for example, identify whether someone is infected with Zika or dengue virus, which have similar symptoms.

But even the best tools in the world won't be sufficient, Gates said, if the United States doesn't have a strategy to harness and coordinate resources at home and help to lead an effective global preparedness and response system.

Trump and senior administration officials have affirmed the importance of controlling infectious disease outbreaks. But the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is facing a loss of emergency funding provided in the wake of the 2014 Ebola epidemic and has begun to planning to downsize its epidemic-prevention activities in 39 out of 49 countries where disease risks are greatest.

Congress provided additional funding in last month's spending bill. But it also directed the administration to come up with a comprehensive plan to strengthen global health security at home and abroad.

"This could be an important first step if the White House and Congress use the opportunity to articulate and embrace a leadership role for the US," Gates said in the speech.

No other country, he noted, has the depth of scientific or technical expertise that the United States possesses, drawing on the resources of institutions such as NIH, CDC and the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, as well as the Defense Department's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

The Washington Post


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Re: CDC epidemiologist disappears, body found, "suicide"

Postby Elvis » Wed May 23, 2018 1:40 am

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“The most unusual factor in this case is that every single belonging that we are aware of was located in the residence,” [Atlanta Police Dept. Major Michael] O’Connor told reporters. “His keys, his cellphone, credit cards, debit cards, wallet, all of his identification, passports. Anything you could think of, we’ve been able to locate. None of those items are missing.”



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Police are denouncing rumors that Cunningham’s’ job as an epidemiologist may have led to his disappearance.

Many speculated that Cunningham may have had some inside information about the flu virus, however, according to authorities, Cunningham didn’t have access to any classified information.

“He had no access to classified material. He would not be of the type of person that, if you kidnapped him and held him, he could give you access to some horrific virus that could be a real problem for all the rest of us,” O’Connor said.

Authorities said while they don’t suspect foul play, they haven’t completely ruled it out yet either.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV_Y8sRglnk

A $10,000 reward is being offered for information on the mysterious disappearance of an epidemiologist for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Timothy Cunningham disappeared more than two weeks ago after he left work early, saying he felt sick. As a "disease detective" at the CDC in Atlanta, Cunningham deployed to public health hot spots to investigate viruses like Ebola and Zika.

His next door neighbor, Viviana Tory, says Cunningham said something odd to her husband the day he went missing, reports CBS News' Omar Villafranca.

"He told my husband to tell his wife – me – to erase his cellphone number from my cellphone," Tory said.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-employ ... sappeared/


"He has such a history of being so responsible and dependable, that that I think what puts us all in such disbelief,"
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Postby Burnt Hill » Thu May 24, 2018 12:43 am

http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2007/02/severe-pandemic-not-overdue-its-not-when-if

A severe pandemic is not overdue - it's not when but if
cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2007/02/severe-pandemic-not-overdue-its-not-when-if
(CIDRAP Source Weekly Briefing) – We have no grounds for confidence that a severe
pandemic is imminent. Our communications shouldn't imply otherwise.
Medical historians tell us there have been nine influenza pandemics in the past 300 years. So
one every 30 to 35 years or so, or roughly three per century, is everybody's best guess about
the future frequency of influenza pandemics.
But extrapolating from nine cases is far from a sure thing. Scientists wouldn't be all that
shocked if pandemics started coming more frequently or less frequently. And even if the
average remains three per century, it's only an average. The 21st century could still give us
just one pandemic—or five.
A semi-official list of the nine pandemics since 1700, listed by the year they started is:
1729
1732
1781
1830
1833
1889
1918
1957
1968
There is nothing cyclic about this list. The shortest gap between pandemics is 3 years; the
longest so far is 56 years. (Some authorities include 1899 and 1977 on the list as well. Adding
them doesn't improve the pattern any, though it does increase the expected frequency a bit.)
To all intents and purposes, flu pandemics are random events. So there are no grounds to
claim that a pandemic is overdue simply because there hasn't been one since 1968. A random
event cannot be "overdue." Risk-perception experts have a name for the mistaken view that
random events are patterned. They call it the gambler's fallacy—named for the tendency of
many roulette players to imagine that a number is overdue because it hasn't come up all night.
(The other gambler's fallacy is imagining that a different number is "hot" because it has come
up several times in quick succession.)
Bottom line: The probability of a flu pandemic hasn't increased because we've gone without
one for 38 years. And if we have one this year, the probability of having another (of a different
strain) the next year won't decrease. 1/3
Still, scientists would be pretty surprised if influenza pandemics simply stopped happening
altogether. So it's fair to say about the next flu pandemic that "it's not if, but when." And a lot of
people have said just that. A Google search for "pandemic" plus "not if but when" yielded
about 1,000 links (some of them from CIDRAP).
But this is not a fair thing to say about asevere flu pandemic. By most accounts, 1918 was the
mother of all flu pandemics, worse than any (or nearly any) we know about before or since.
Most survivors of the 1918 pandemic remembered losing friends or relatives to it. By contrast,
most of us who lived through the pandemics of 1957 and 1968 barely noticed.
Maybe a pandemic as bad as 1918 happens once every 300 years or so. (There was
apparently a big one in 1580, too.) Maybe 1957 and 1968 will turn out to be the exceptions,
and most future pandemics will be more like 1918. We don't know. That's why I say that, when
we're talking about a severe pandemic, something as bad as 1918 or worse, it's not when but
if.
Precisely because 1957 and 1968 were so forgettable, the claim that future pandemics are
inevitable is often heard as a claim that severe pandemics are inevitable. And that's just not
true.
Or it may be heard as a claim that the influenza strain that currently dominates news coverage,
H5N1, will inevitably launch a pandemic. That's not true either. H5N1 has been around at least
since 1997 without becoming capable of efficient human-to-human transmission. Does that
mean that it probably won't? We don't know. H5N1 has proved incredibly deadly to both poultry
(millions) and people (scores). Does that mean that if it becomes capable of efficient humanto-human
transmission, the pandemic it launches will be a severe one? We don't know that
either.
Right now is the first time we've ever been able to watch closely as a new bird flu strain either
does or doesn't lead to a human pandemic. So we can't say whether H5N1 is acting like past
bird flus that later launched bad pandemics, or past bird flus that later launched mild
pandemics, or past bird flus that never launched pandemics at all.
In recent months there have been a few news stories on the theme: "Whatever became of the
bird flu scare? How come the predicted pandemic didn't happen?" What's missing from these
very damaging stories is the crucial fact that the pandemic risk hasn't abated simply because
no pandemic has materialized so far.
Pandemic preparedness advocates blame these sorts of stories on the short attention span of
the media. But we who give the mainstream media their information—including CIDRAP—
deserve some of the blame ourselves. If reporters and the public earlier got the impression that
a severe H5N1 pandemic was imminent, they got it from us. The misimpression that the risk
was necessarily imminent and the misimpression that the risk is now past are identical twins.
The first gave rise to the second.
Two closely connected risk-communication principles are at stake here. 2/3
The first principle is to acknowledge uncertainty. An overconfident risk communicator is likely
to generate skepticism in the audience even before the truth is known. And if the truth turns
out to be different from your confident prediction, trust in you erodes. That doesn't mean you
shouldn't make predictions. It means your predictions shouldn't sound more confident than the
facts justify. Talk about H5N1 the way weather forecasters talk about a distant hurricane. It
might be headed our way—or not. It might strengthen—or weaken. We need to track it closely,
stockpile essential supplies, and make contingency plans. Will it be category 5 or category 2?
Will it hit here or go elsewhere? It's not when, but if.
The second principle deals specifically with worst-case scenarios—that is, low-probability,
high-magnitude risks. The wisdom of taking precautions depends not just on the probability of
a risk, but also on its magnitude. When a risk is awful enough, precautions make sense, even
though the risk may be unlikely and the precautions may be wasted. We don't buy fire
insurance because we're confident our house will catch fire; we buy it because a fire could be
devastating. And wise insurance salespeople don't tell us that we're overdue for a fire. They
don't claim that it's not if but when our house will burn.
I'll say more about the communication of worst-case scenarios in my next column.
An internationally renowned expert in risk communication and crisis communication, Peter
Sandman speaks and consults widely on communication aspects of pandemic preparedness.
Dr. Sandman, Deputy Editor, contributes an original column to CIDRAP Source Weekly
Briefing every other week. Most of his risk communication writing is available without charge at
the Peter Sandman Risk Communication Web Site (http://www.psandman.com). For an index of
pandemic-related writing on the site, see http://www.psandman.com/index-infec.htm.
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Re: CDC epidemiologist disappears, body found, "suicide"

Postby Grizzly » Thu May 24, 2018 4:22 am

^^^ Good stuff thanks... Also, let's not overlook this goy: https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/8lpaui/strange_case_of_francho_bradley_and_his_arsenal/
Strange case of Francho Bradley and his arsenal, CDC claims and DOD permit. updates

Is there a pattern forming? Can Poppy see his New World Order coming in view, from his wheel chair, for the final clamp down? PNAC LIVES! "...advanced forms of biological warfare that can target specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool" *

Does this mean the Anglo/neocons-Wahabi-Zionist gang are circling the wagons for the Big Show**?

* Originally From "Rebuilding America's Defenses (RAD)". hxxps://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/archivos_pdf/RebuildingAmericaDefenses.pdf
** Big Show as in what Pink Floyd refers to...

Finally, see this from Cynthia McKinney's
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Dec 4 2017 tweet:
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Postby Burnt Hill » Thu May 24, 2018 9:46 pm

Great post Grizzly, thanks. Excepting that my anxiety just went up another notch, but yeah, thanks.
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