Death of Dr. George Baer
Dr. George Martin Baer, 73, of Mexico City and formerly of Atlanta, died June 2 from complications of a suspected heart attack at his home. Funeral services were held June 4 in Mexico City at the Iglesia de Santa Rosa de Lima. A memorial service will be held in Atlanta at a later date.
Born in London, Dr. Baer grew up in New Rochelle, N.Y., where he developed an early love for animals. He graduated from the Westtown School in Westtown, Pa., and in the late 1950s earned two degrees at Cornell University — a bachelor's in agricultural sciences and a degree in veterinary medicine. He got a master's degree in public health from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
His career in public health began at the New York state health department in Albany, where he researched rabies and other diseases. In 1964, he researched bat rabies at the CDC's Southwest Rabies Investigations Station in Las Cruces, N.M.
Four years later, he became head of the CDC's rabies laboratory in Atlanta, where he and others made history. He earned acclaim as "the father of oral rabies vaccination." His book, "The Natural History of Rabies," has been a worldwide reference since 1975.
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