An internationally renowned whistleblower who exposed the spread of HIV and hepatitis at blood centers in rural China died while hiking in September near Salt Lake City.
Shuping Wang’s family and friends describe her as gregarious, generous and so happy that many who befriended her in Utah weren’t aware of her dramatic story: that she fled Henan province after she said officials there beat her, smashed her lab and tried to destroy her research into the lucrative plasma centers that were not taking the proper safety precautions.
Wang, 59, died Sept. 21, apparently from a heart attack while she was hiking with a group of friends on the Mount Aire Trail in Mill Creek Canyon, Christensen said.