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...Yale scientist's infection prompts calls for tighter lab security...
...accident must have come as a horrifying shock, even for an experienced scientist. One minute, a sample was spinning in a high-speed centrifuge. Then, suddenly, the container cracked, and the sample -- tissue contaminated by a rare, potentially lethal virus -- spattered the inside of the centrifuge. Fortunately, the Yale University researcher working with the deadly germs was wearing a lab gown, latex gloves and a mask, as required under federal guidelines. He also knew the proper procedure for dealing with a deadly spill: rub every surface with bleach, sterilize all instruments that have been exposed, then wipe everything down again...
...move. Although he would not realize it for about a week, the scientist -- his name has not been officially released -- had been infected with the mysterious Brazilian Sabia virus. Soon after he got back to Yale, he was running a fever that reached 103F. An experimental antiviral drug eventually stopped the illness, but the man had exposed five people, including two children, before being confined to a hospital isolation ward, and another 75 or so health-care workers after that. All of them are under observation. While the patient slowly recovered last week, Yale officials had to decide whether...
...general public. The concerns will only intensify in the weeks ahead with the publication of the gripping book Hot Zone, about a deadly-virus crisis in Virginia in 1989 (see following stories). Sabia is almost certainly carried by rodents and is not contagious by casual contact (the afflicted scientist evidently got it from tiny bits of tissue that flew into his unprotected eyes or nose or both). The Yale lab, moreover, is classified as a level-3 biohazard facility, meaning, among other things, that it is kept at negative air pressure. Outside air can flow in through tiny cracks...
...only 17%. His party seems likely to fracture and fade further. Meanwhile, the center-right, business-oriented National Action Party (P.A.N.) surged from 16% of the electorate in 1988 to almost 27%. % The party looks like a challenger in the making. "For the P.A.N.," says Denise Dresser, a political scientist at the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico, "the race did not end on Aug. 21. It began...