Word: agent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other arenaviruses have been known to doctors for at least two decades, Sabia was never seen before 1990. In that year, a female agricultural engineer checked into a hospital in Sao Paulo, Brazil, with a high fever. Within days she was dead. Brazilian scientists tried to identify the infectious agent; one of their number fell ill and nearly died in the process. But they could determine only that it was a member of the arenavirus clan, so they sent a sample on to Yale for further identification...
...called class 4 biohazard from now on, which means researchers will be able to handle it only inside a glove box or while wearing a space suit. Lassa and Guanarito are deemed class 4 already. The CDC might also do well to institute a rule that any unclassified infectious agent should be considered class 4 until proved otherwise...
...Both CIA agent Aldrich Hazen Ames and Russian informant Dmitri Polyakov ((ESPIONAGE, Aug. 8)) were double agents. But General Polyakov's altruistic nature was evidenced by the fact that "he would not accept much money" for passing Moscow's secrets to the U.S. This behavior, coupled with his commitment to remain in Russia to right the wrongs within the Soviet system, shows that he was the antithesis of Ames, a piece of profit-oriented garbage. Why is someone like Ames extended the courtesy of a life prison sentence? It would seem his very existence poses a security threat...
...video, taken in 1992 by a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service undercover agent, was later used to put the hunter in jail. Grosz, a 6-ft. 5-in. bear of a man who is an assistant regional director for law enforcement for the Fish and Wildlife Service, has seen the footage dozens of times in this Lakewood, Colorado, viewing room, yet he cannot control his sorrow, or his anger. His eyes still damp, he asks, "Did you see that? How they were killing the bears right in front of the camera? Those bastards...
Shortly after the snake bust, Bill Tanner, the Park Service group's leader, got an ominous phone message at his Santa Fe headquarters. The caller wanted to assure him that if he sent another agent into the area, "you're gonna find him floating in the river." Tanner smiles. "That only means you're getting to these guys," he says. "You're doing your job." For poacher-hunting agents like Tanner, the big game is thick on the landscape...