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In times of crises, it is easy to run and hide. My circumstances dictated that I run, but I have made the decision to not hide. My personal gain is of little importance, though I am motivated out of self-preservation, both in terms of my reputation and my corporeal integrity. Everyone's health is in danger, especially those in the moderate climates found in 70% of the globe's landmass, and that is why I'm making such a fuss. I probably won't be hired again anytime soon, but I'd rather suffer now than be named in some discovery document decades from now when the truth gets out, all too late, at which time I'd be permanently blacklisted.

My last day of work was the 12th of December, 2007. I was hired at the IICB or Instituto Independiente de Ciencias Biologicas in Buenos Aires in February of 2007, largely based on my research in arthropod speciation. I was fired for using a lab email account to email the press about IICB's accomplishment in cross-carriering the Trypanosoma xaio parasite (HUMAN parasite) into the xaiobeetle, a species of Rhinobeetle. Whichever email address I used I imagine is beyond the point -- I was fired for leaking what I knew was a health hazard -- something the IICB saw as a potential cash cow.

Parasite lifecycles are difficult to model since they depend so heavily and evolve so contextually in the ecosystem of multiple organisms, and while parasite carrier-migration has been performed before, IICB's efforts, and their reckless use of field-habitats, is the first time a human-infecting parasite was used.

I hope to write more soon, and I've used an email address and password that will hopefully evade hacking attempts by the IICB.

-Dr. Anton Spiteri