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Back in Washington, Taubenberger and Reid had decided to concentrate on the seven cases in which the victim had died most quickly, figuring that these specimens would be most likely to retain the genetic remains of the virus. They found plenty of RNA, but none of it looked like flu--until, after a full year's work, they came to Private Roscoe Vaughn...
...classroom set aside as a kind of nature corner, with live chicks and ducklings. Fukuda knew that the birds had died before the boy got sick, but no one knew what killed them. The team swabbed the classroom floor to try to capture some of the virus, but found none. Although press reports suggested a close tie between the death of the classroom birds and the boy's illness, Fukuda says the source of the boy's infection is by no means certain. "It was unclear then," he says. "It is unclear...
...investigation of the boy's illness lasted 2 1/2 weeks. By the time Fukuda left Hong Kong, his team had collected 2,000 blood samples. Antibodies indicating previous exposure to H5N1 were found in only nine samples, including one of the boy's classmates and one of his doctors. None of the nine recalled being ill. The fact that so few showed signs of exposure was concrete evidence that the virus was not particularly contagious...
...tried helicopters, unmarked cars, plainclothes officers, everything," Bergmann says. "We once wrote 100 citations, and we've called parents from up to 100 miles away to come get their kids. But none of it has an effect. I don't have the manpower to send someone out there every night...
...rest of Indonesia, though, the move is financial poison. Pegging the rupiah to the dollar would only work if Indonesia's economy were "comparatively healthy--functioning banks, low inflation, low unemployment, like in the U.S.," says Baumohl. "Indonesia has none of those. It'll be a disaster...