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Article: NIH Administrator John La Montagne Dies
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- The Washington Post
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- November 8, 2004
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Dr. John R. La Montagne, 61, deputy director of the National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, died Nov. 2 after he
collapsed while standing in an airport line in his native Mexico
City. The cause of death was pulmonary infarction edema.
Dr. La Montagne, an Alexandria resident for nearly 30 years, was
an infectious disease biologist in the early years of his public
health career. His specialty -- or, as he put it in a speech a few
years ago, his "nemesis" -- was influenza.
When he died, he was an administrator overseeing a budget of about
$4 billion at NIAID, a component of the National Institutes of Health
that supports research into such infectious diseases as HIV/AIDS, ...