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...scorn heaped on the second office in the republic, the modern-day fact is that vice-presidential virus is only slightly less contagious than presidential fever. One reason is that four of our last eight Vice Presidents have become President. Nelson Rockefeller used to be openly contemptuous of the post, noting that he did not consider himself to be stand-by equipment; when the job was offered he quickly accepted it. Robert Kennedy in 1964 convinced his friends how really awful he thought it would be to serve as Lyndon Johnson's running mate. Not long afterward he tried...
...disease -after a 1913 outbreak in Vladivostok -suspected a rodent-borne virus, but neither they nor later researchers were ever able to isolate the culprit. Lee himself made little progress until 1971, when a member of his team assigned to catch rodents for research was suddenly felled by hemorrhagic fever. The lab was immediately quarantined and work interrupted for several months, but the incident made Lee even more certain that the carrier was indeed a rodent. During seven years, the research team collected more than 2,400 mice and other rodents, examined countless human and animal organs and isolated...
Disease Agent. Finally, Lee made the crucial connection. He took viral material from a Korean subspecies of the mouse known as Apodemus agrarius and mixed it with blood serum from patients recuperating from hemorrhagic fever. The blood proved to contain antibodies-protective proteins developed by the body's immune system in response to invading foreign substances -that matched and combined with the viral material from the mouse. There were no such linkups when Lee did the same with the blood of people who had never suffered from hemorrhagic fever. Thus the mouse virus was almost certainly the cause...
...disease transmitted? Because hemorrhagic fever peaks in May and October, the dry seasons in South-Korea, Lee suspects the virus lives in the droppings of Apodemus agrarius and attacks humans when they stir up dust and inhale virus-laden particles...
Garrett has a cynical interpretation of the demonstrations and strikes of the late sixties. "I wonder how much of it was a spring-fever type of thing. There was a lot of wasted time and a lot of apocalyptic thinking when it turned out not to be an apocalypse...