In Popular Fiction
The Parker case provides a major plot element in the Patricia Cornwell novel Unnatural Exposure. The killer, an apparently respectable microbiologist, turns out to have been a junior researcher at the medical school at the time of Parker's death, and to have been scapegoated for the accident after Professor Bedson's suicide. Nursing a grudge over her blighted career, she develops a new strain of poxvirus from material stolen from the Birmingham lab, and attempts to start an epidemic.
The case has also been briefly mentioned in the TV series House in episode A Pox on Our House. Janet Parker was mentioned by name in the episode, while Bedson's subsequent suicide was referenced.
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