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diagnose, easy to transmit, and generally satisfactory.
They called it "New Q." Q Fever. A rickettsia that
could be passed through dogs, for example, though the
hit ratio in that case would be inevitably slapdash. But it
could also be transmitted in, say, straw you'd use to
pack something in. Or in dust. Or in, say, the public
mails. The best part of it was that humans rarely ever
got Q Fever and if they did, it was usually no more than
a bad fever, shakes, and nausea. However, Q Fever
could do some interesting damage to the coronary
valves. Assume, Dr. Svatopluk invited his guests,
assume that interesting factor could be isolated and
intensified, could be made resistant to the normal
antibiotics like tetracycline. Assume that through
experiments with DNA fragments that the intensified
factor, transferred through a bacteriophage from the
host to a recipient cell, could result in a new kind of Q
Fever, deadly, transportable, undiagnosable. A killer to
which no one had built up any immunity.
"A winner." The scientist grinned as he swept them
out of his lab. "I don't mind saying that's when my gray
matter began to gyrate. The rest was just, don't you