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Toxicologists have already worked on phosgene, herbicides and pesticides, and carbon tetrachloride, at least 16 metals and many of their compounds -even the paint on pencils that might have been used as swizzle sticks. For a few days nickel carbonyl (a versatile industrial chemical) was a prime suspect, but the first laboratory tests proved useless because of contamination. Some unofficial observers speculated that diazomethane, a gas used in making plastics, might have been spread around in some mysterious...
...total of $65,000. It was only one of several cases to emerge in a mushrooming scandal involving Ohio's workmen's compensation system, which, with assets of $1.5 billion, is the largest such program in which the state is the sole insurer. More than 1,000 suspect claims and scores of bogus companies are currently under scrutiny. The total cost of Ohio's Watergate, as a state investigator called it, to employers that support the workmen's comp system could reach into the millions...
...villain was indeed an influenza virus, since at least some vaccines against flu were already available for use. But it was not to be so simple a case. After reviewing the results of their first set of tests, scientists ruled out swine flu or any flu as a suspect...
Another early suspect was ornithosis, a disease transmitted through bird droppings and direct handling of infected birds. "The picture in Philadelphia fits ornithosis like a glove," said Dr. Pascal Imperato, chief epidemiologist of the New York City health department. "The symptoms, the fact that this is obviously a common-source outbreak, the fact that there has been no secondary spread of the disease. All these point to ornithosis above all else, and ornithosis is very hard to isolate." An Allentown, Pa., physician, Dr. Gary Lattimer, tended to agree. Assuming that the disease fitted this diagnosis, he treated three...
...found no indication of either plague or typhoid fever. So the search went on into more exotic terrain. Tests also ruled out tularemia (rabbit fever), a deadly tropical disease known as Lassa fever, and Marburg disease, a viral disease from Africa. Further screening seemed to dismiss fungi as a suspect; no fungus is known to produce the fatally fulminating pneumonia typical of Legion disease...