Perth’s Nobel Prize-winner Professor Barry Marshall fears his friend Michael Mosley might have succumbed to heatstroke. “It could explain why he suddenly disappeared,” Prof. Marshall said on Friday whilst checking updates on the search for the much-loved British medical presenter on the Greek island, Symi. ”When I heard that , we were all a bit sad about it because a number of my family know Michael.” “I usually see him at events about once every year or two,” he said.
“He could have just fallen over in the heat and been unconscious for 24 hours lying behind a rock or something like that, but they really need to search every square inch of that area where he was last seen. “I used to do research on before I did the Helicobacter research.” Prof. Marshall said he first met Dr Mosley when he visited Perth with a BBC film crew in 1993. Dr Mosley’s own penchant for self-experimentation was inspired by Prof. Marshall’s own dramatic consumption of live bacteria.