Mysterious deaths of top microbiologists
About a dozen world-acclaimed scientific researchers specialising in infectious diseases and biological agents such as Anthrax, as well as DNA sequencing, have died under suspect circumstances, all within a four-month span.
Set Van Nguyen was found dead at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization's animal diseases facility in Geelong, Australia. He had worked there 15 years. In January, 2001, the magazine Nature published information that two scientists at this facility, using genetic manipulation and DNA sequencing, had created an incredibly virulent form of mousepox, a cousin of smallpox. The researchers were extremely concerned that if similar manipulation could be done to smallpox, a terrifying weapon could be unleashed.