Word: labs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...states, creeping as far south as Florida. In one Alabama county, 7,000 persons went to their doctors with flulike symptoms. In Ohio, 40% of the students at one school were absent. Still, U.S. health officials refused to blame the wave of illness specifically on Asian flu. Weeks of lab testing are necessary before flu viruses can be isolated and identified. And the symptoms of Asian flu-three to four days of fever, coughing, sore throat, aches and pains-are also indicative of any number of respiratory infections...
Miss Happel managed to run from the room, but Miss Stewart, her clothing ablaze, had to be pulled from the lab by Patrick Skihil, another technician. He threw her to the ground and rolled her over and over until he had extinguished the flames...
...materials for Dr. Gill's ten-year research into synthetic polypeptides were being stored in the lab's "cold room" refrigerators. In his research, Dr. Gill was studying antigens and the antibody response they cause in humans. The cultures in the cold room were irreplaceable, Dr. Gill said...
Henry C. Meadow, associate dean of Medicine for financial affairs, said that the cold room cultures were saved only by the "extraordinarily cooperative" work of the firemen. "The firemen spoke with the people in charge of the lab," Meadow said, "and tried to save the cold room material." Dr. Gill also praised the efforts of the B.&G. staff. According to Meadow, the loss was mainly in chemicals and instrumentation. "The basic materials were saved," he said...
...lab itself was nearly destroyed by the explosion. Windows were blown out and furniture strewn about the room. Other rooms in the building, however, suffered little damage...