- Hello, Jeff - We may just have another one to add to
the list of extremely suspicious (convenient) deaths of top medical researchers.
"She died suddenly yesterday at the Jakarta airport, traveling home
from a WHO meeting." Huh?
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- "A world leading authority on deadly infectious
diseases, Aileen Plant, has died suddenly at the age of 52. She was
at Jakarta Airport in Indonesia on Tuesday (27 Mar 2007) when she reportedly died
of natural causes."
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- Jeff, please tell me how a 52 year old active and vibrant
woman can die of 'natural causes' at an airport? Was she run over by a
plane? Natural causes? Not one word of what really killed her. This
is most suspicious.
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- I will continue to monitor the death of Dr. Plant and
watch to see if more Avian flu/SARS researchers die of "natural causes."
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- Patty
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- OBITUARY - PROFESSOR AILEEN PLANT
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- A ProMED-mail post ProMED-mail is a program of the International
Society for Infectious Diseases
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- Date: 29 Mar 2007 From: Marjorie P. Pollack, MD
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- Aileen was a very dear friend. Her sudden death will
leave a big void in Public Health internationally. It is very difficult
to find the words that would adequately capture what a truly wonderful
friend and impressive, dynamic public health practitioner Aileen was.
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- As a friend, they didn't come much better, as many who
were fortunate enough to call her a friend would say.
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- As a Public Health professional, the same applies; they
just don't get much better. Her official titles included Professor
of International Health at Curtin University of Technology and Deputy CEO
of the Australian Biosecurity Cooperative. She also served as an expert
consultant to the World Health Organization (WHO) in many different capacities.
In addition to her below- mentioned activities in SARS and avian influenza,
Aileen was actively involved in the revision of the International Health
Regulations, was on the Polio Eradication Advisory Committee, was the founding
director of the Australian Field Epidemiology Training Program, and chaired
more committees than one would imagine, all of which she did with ease,
professionalism and a wonderful infectious smile and sense of humor. She
will be sorely missed by many.
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- Below are the early announcements of her death.
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- Marjorie P. Pollack, MD Associate Editor/Epidemiology
& Surveillance Moderator ProMED-mail
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- From: ProMED-mail <<mailto:promed@promedmail.org>promed@promedmail.org>
Source: Margaret Chan, WHO Director-General
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- WHO and the public health community mourn the death of
Dr. Aileen Plant
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- Today, I would like to express my most sincere condolences
to the family, friends, and colleagues of Dr Aileen Plant.
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- Dr Plant, of Australia, was a renowned medical epidemiologist,
an outstanding global public health leader, and longtime friend to the
public health community. She was a path-blazing, respected lecturer, teacher
and writer. Many at WHO considered her a mentor. She died suddenly yesterday
at the Jakarta airport, traveling home from a WHO meeting.
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- Dr Plant made enormous contributions to the health and
welfare of people in her country, and to the world. In the very early weeks
of the SARS outbreaks in Viet Nam, she was instrumental in analysing the
threat. She was a core part of the team which designed the influenza pandemic
containment plan. Just this week in Indonesia, she helped to bring consensus
on the challenging issues surrounding avian influenza virus sharing and
ensuring access to influenza vaccine for developing countries.
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- She never hesitated to travel to the places she was needed.
And we needed her many, many times in extremely challenging situations.
She brought a deep sense of duty, commitment, vast experience, ethics,
courage, and professionalism to her work. Those who knew her described
her as "the best," "the beating heart" and a "true
servant" of public health.
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- We and many others will miss her personally and professionally
very much.
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- http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/statements/2007/s07/en/index.html
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- From: Paul Repacholi Source: Australian Broadcasting
Company
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- SARS Expert Dies
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- A world leading authority on deadly infectious diseases,
Aileen Plant, has died suddenly at the age of 52. She was at Jakarta Airport
in Indonesia on Tuesday [27 Mar 2007] when she reportedly died of natural
causes.
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- Professor Plant was based at Perth's Curtin University,
but worked extensively with the World Health Organisation (WHO). She was
considered instrumental in analysing and containing the threat of SARS.
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- Professor Plant has been heralded as irreplaceable by
Curtin University colleague John Mackenzie. "There's no simple way
of being able to sum her up, I guess, but she just loved people, she loved
being able to help, she loved being able to make a difference," he
said. Professor Mackenzie says the WHO director-general called her a trailblazer
and a true servant of public health. "So many parts of the world
were dependent on her; the Commonwealth Department of Public Health used
to use her to chair or be a member of many of their committees," he
said. "I think she had so many things going for her, and I just don't
know how we're going to cope without her, basically." Professor Mackenzie
says Professor Plant did an incredible amount of work to combat infectious
diseases in developing countries. "I think she really, really enjoyed
what she did," he said. "She loved the cut and thrust, she loved
being able to help people, particularly in developing countries. She had
a very, very strong love of Viet Nam, ever since she was up there for SARS;
she won their highest award in fact, it was the highest award that country
could give."
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- http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200703/s1884975.htm
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- Patricia A. Doyle DVM, PhD
- Bus Admin, Tropical Agricultural Economics
- Univ of West Indies
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- Please visit my "Emerging Diseases" message
board at:
- http://www.emergingdisease.org/phpbb/index.php
- Also my new website:
- http://drpdoyle.tripod.com/
- Zhan le Devlesa tai sastimasa
- Go with God and in Good Health
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