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CDC Doctor Who Claimed Flu Shot Caused Outbreak Is Still Missing; Family Offers Reward

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A search in the metro Atlanta area for Timothy Cunningham, an employee of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is still ongoing.

The family of the 35-year-old has offered a $10,000 reward to anyone who knows his whereabouts, reported Atlanta’s Fox 5 News. The Morehouse & Harvard graduate mysteriously disappeared two weeks ago now and he hasn’t been seen or heard from since Feb. 12. Cunningham reportedly left work early because he wasn’t feeling well.

Anterio Cunningham, the victims brother, told the local news station he fears something has happened to Timothy and his brother’s disappearance is eerie.

“My first mind is that something has happened — especially considering the length of time he’s been gone… Not having his phone, leaving his dog Bo alone, he just wouldn’t voluntarily check out like that.” Anterio told Fox 5.

A recent article that was published by YoursNewsWire.Com, reported that Dr. Cunningham spoke out about flu shots being the cause of deadly outbreaks of Influenza.

“Some of the patients I’ve administered the flu shot to this year have died I don’t care who you are, this scares the crap out of me… We have seen people dying across the country of the flu, and one thing nearly all of them have in common is they got the flu shot,” he told YoursNewsWire in January.

The news source reportedly granted Dr. Cunningham anonymity, but he told them to go public in case anything were to happen to him. He’s one of the few doctors who have the courage to bring awareness to the issue publicly.

“We just hope he will just come home safely”, his family expressed to Fox 5. “None of this makes sense. He wouldn’t just evaporate like this and leave his dog alone and have our mother wondering and worrying like this. He wouldn’t.”

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