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...Then, within hours, most of them died of acute respiratory failure, literally drowning in their own bodily fluids. Frustrated officials with the Indian Health Service, the University of New Mexico and the state's health department put in a call to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. In a matter of days, highly trained specialists--essentially a public-health swat team from the premier U.S. government lab's Epidemic Intelligence Service--were on the scene. Within two weeks, their meticulous detective work had identified the deadly microbe: a lethal variant of a germ known as hantavirus, carried...
When that awful time does come, the CDC will be ready. Samples of the new strain will be rushed to the CDC's complex in Atlanta, essentially the Pentagon of the nation's disease-fighting armies. Influenza work goes on in a place known as Building 7, but virtually every other disease organism is imprisoned and studied inside Building 15, a massive edifice that sits a bit apart from the other structures. It has only one entrance, monitored constantly by cameras and motion sensors. Its door opens only to those carrying specially authorized magnetic cards. There is reason for such...
...anywhere within BSL4. On the way out, everyone takes a chemical decontamination shower inside the safety suit, followed by a conventional shower. All clothing used in the lab is incinerated, and all wastewater flowing out of the building is boiled for nearly an hour before being released into the Atlanta sewers...
...Jeff Foxworthy Show, which premiered last season on ABC and is moving to NBC, was rebuilt during six weeks this summer. No longer a fish out of water in the Midwest, the Southern comic will find himself living near Atlanta. This time he gets a new wife and potential for more conflict in the form of a female boss...
DIED. CHARLES KIRBO, 79, unassuming Georgia lawyer who was former President Jimmy Carter's one-man "Kitchen Cabinet" and closest friend; in Atlanta. Kirbo first aided Carter in 1962, when he successfully argued a ballot-stuffing case that nearly cheated Carter out of a state Senate seat. Kirbo went on to advise Carter in his gubernatorial and presidential campaigns, as well as on the running of the White House. Kirbo always preferred anonymity, declining Governor Carter's offer to appoint him to fill a vacant U.S. Senate seat...