ne day, he received a message from his mother saying that an Army officer named Donald Burke was look- ing for him. Burke, the chief virologist at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, in Silver Spring, had met Wolfe at a public-health conference the year before, and the men had spent hours talking about their share

ed between conventional and alternative therapies. In the early nineties, he served as the director of the Medical Research Fellowship Program at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, in Washington, D.C. He went on to run the Office of Alternative Med- icine at the National Institutes of Health, from 1995 to 1999. T