Dr. Roderick Johnson is the Clinical Director for the Centers for Disease Control Jacques Maillot, Director General of the Global Welfare Consortium, had sent a letter to Dr. Roderick Johnson, about the alarming issue concerning research operations by the Hanso Foundation in the sub-Saharan region of Africa. Maillot requested that the CDC conduct a formal investigation into the matter. Maillot discovered that a a new strain of meningococcal disease had been reported in the coastal villages of the United Republic of Tanzania.