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...special bacterial pathogens branch, flew to Philadelphia as soon as the CDC received Pennsylvania's call for help. He supervised the collection, by a staff of 18 investigators, of the materials that his laboratory colleagues at headquarters would need: throat swabbings, garglings, blood samples, urine and fecal specimens and-from victims already dead -snippets of lung and other tissue. Batch after batch of these were collected and flown to Atlanta, where they were hand-carried...
...most sophisticated techniques is the fluorescent antibody test, which can be used for many types of infectious disease. A specimen (it may be liquid, a thin slice of tissue or a fecal smear) is put on a slide. Then the technicians add a mixture of antibodies (from the blood serums of animals or of patients who have recovered from known diseases), tagged with a fluorescent substance. If any of the antibodies have had a "charge effect," the equivalent of a magnetic attraction, joining a virus or one of the bacteria, some of the antibody mixture will glow under ultraviolet light...
...kitsch. He is also the Joe McCarthy of heterosexuality who looks for gays under every bed, a man who professes to love woman but whose opinions reveal a lover of the Vic torian idea of Woman, and a Jeremiah who sees the world ending in nuclear war or a fecal flood of pollution...
...complained about unsafe working conditions. In early November, she became living proof of those dangers. On two consecutive days, as Silkwood was leaving work, sensitive plant monitors detected that she was slightly contaminated by radioactivity. She was promptly scrubbed clean. Later, she brought in urine and fecal samples; they proved to be radioactive. On a third day, the monitors clicked when she entered the plant; a subsequent investigation showed that her apartment had become contaminated...
Still, Adams' creatures are not entirely without foundation. The rabbit possesses uniquely repellent characteristics, among them the habit of consuming its own fecal pellets. But it also behaves in a manner that casts doubt upon the singularity of Homo sapiens. Young mated rabbits, for example, begin in a modest burrow but as their social standing in the community rises, they seek better quarters. Bucks are serially monogamous - with sporadic liaisons, possible when an attractive surplus doe hops into view. The couple's offspring are welcome to stay in the burrow after adolescence - provided that they remain docile...