Rumors spread quickly when Anne Rimoin and her team arrived at a remote village in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2002 to take blood samples from every person over the age of 1. Some villagers believed the UCLA assistant professor in epidemiology and her team were stealing blood for white Europeans to stay young, Rimoin said. Read more...
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Anne Rimoin and her team traveled to a remote village in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2002 to get specimens of human monkeypox, a disease prevalent in the region. Nine years later, Rimoin still returns to the Congo to conduct her research.
