Open AccessDestroying the Life and Career of a Valued Physician-Scientist Who Tried to Protect Us from Plague: Was It Really Necessary?
Author(s) -
Barbara E. Murray,
Karl E. Anderson,
Keith Arnold,
J. G. Bartlett,
Charles C. J. Carpenter,
Stanley Falkow,
J. T. Hartman,
Thomas J A Lehman,
T. W. Reid,
F. M. Ryburn,
R. Bradley Sack,
Marc Struelens,
Lawrence S. Young,
W. B. Greenough
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
clinical infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1537-6591
pISSN - 1058-4838
DOI - 10.1086/431348
Subject(s) - plague (disease) , prison , medicine , yersinia pestis , sentence , criminology , gerontology , family medicine , psychology , pathology , biology , biochemistry , linguistics , philosophy , virulence , gene
Thomas Campbell Butler, at 63 years of age, is completing the first year of a 2-year sentence in federal prison, following an investigation and trial that was initiated after he voluntarily reported that he believed vials containing Yersinia pestis were missing from his laboratory at Texas Tech University. We take this opportunity to remind the infectious diseases community of the plight of our esteemed colleague, whose career and family have, as a result of his efforts to protect us from infection by this organism, paid a price from which they will never recover.
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