Throat washings, sputum and blood specimens were obtained ... One viral agent was isolated in Hep-2 cells from specimens submitted in September. The virus remains unclassified at this time.

But no one was looking at the vasculature," the blood vessels ... to know if the virus was getting into arteries and what it was doing once it got there. They analyzed tissue specimens from ...

The scientists collected saliva, blood and excrement from the wriggling, razor-fanged animals, and the specimens were placed ... began to simmer after the virus hunters were repeatedly bitten ...