Well, I don't know whether this fellow can be blamed for the latest outbreak or not, but what I do know that he was highly irresponsible in making public assertions that were unsupported by good evidence. He acted unethically and his "research" was fraudulent. It seems like a long time since he perpetrated these things, but fear has a habit of sticking around for quite a long time in folk memory, and the basis of the fear tends to get distorted along the way. He does have a lot to answer for.