Am I just paranoid?
This came today via ProMed email...
George Martin Baer, 1936-2009
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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
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