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...hunts ordinary bacteria, but by a microbiologist who specializes in leprosy and rickettsial diseases like typhus and spotted fever. The latter are characterized by fever, headaches and general malaise and are caused by bacteria-like microorganisms usually carried by ticks, lice and fleas. But when Dr. Joseph McDade, 36, examined the lung tissue of victims of last summer's outbreak, he found no trace of any rickettsiae...
Refusing to give up, McDade decided during the Christmas holidays on a new approach: to look for a strange organism rather than a familiar one. It was difficult, tedious work, he recalls, "like searching for a missing contact lens on a basketball court with your eyes four inches away from the floor...
Telltale Symptoms. As a first step, he inoculated his guinea pigs with lung tissue from two victims of Legionnaires' disease. Within a day or so, the lab animals developed telltale symptoms: fever, lethargy, watery eyes. Then McDade injected material from their spleens into chick embryos, which also became infected, and died within six days...
...McDade points out that there is still a small chance that the new bacterium may turn out to be a secondary invader rather than the disease agent itself. But for the moment, the disease sleuths think they have their bug and are now trying to fit the bacterium-which as yet does not even have a nickname-into its proper niche in the microbial world. They are also trying to answer major questions about it: How and where does it grow? How is it transmitted? (Legionnaires' disease is apparently not carried from one person to another.) One reassuring fact...
...love interest, sophisticated hero and heroine, comic minor roles with plenty of room for hamming it up. Our hero the dashing and debonair if lightly befuddled Jimmy Winter (John Witham), returns to his palatial Southampton estate with his new bride, an insufferably prim young woman named Constance (Innes-Fergus McDade). Unbeknownst to him, however, his mansion has been appropriated by a gang of enterprising bootleggers who have managed to charm their way into the good graces of "The Girls," a sort of Platonic harem that takes care of Jimmy's house while he's away and takes care of Jimmy...