Acute Aplastic Anemia - On the sci-fi adventure STRANGE WORLD/ABC/1999 Tim Guinee played Paul Turner, a former Army scientist who was exposed to Gulf War bio-toxins and diagnosed with acute aplastic anemia. After five years of "crucifying" the military of the Internet for their part in his debilitative illness, Turner is given doses of an unknown drug that relieves his symptoms. Unfortunately, the people who control the miracle drug, now withhold its curative powers until Turner agrees to follow orders from a secretive Asian woman (Vivian Wu). Trapped between the darkness of a depressive malady and the promise of potential cure for his affliction, Turner reluctantly volunteers to join forces with a mysterious group who sends him on missions to unearth criminal abuses in the fields of science (viral infections, genetic manipulation, medical malfeasance, etc.). To keep Turner from analyzing the drug, his benefactors had it engineered to revert to a saline solution before it could be studied.