Dr. Leonard Thorne appears in The Pathos in the Pathogens. He was the head of a major biotech company, but the investigations of blogger Mia Garrett revealed that he had created a mutated virus with the goal of releasing it on the public to sell the cure for financial gain. To dispose of Mia, Thorne infected her with the mutated virus, leaving her to die in his office even after she came to him for the cure, disposing of her body in a local waste dump.