Peril From The East

The University Of Hong Kong's pathology lab is one of the few places on earth where you can stare a newly accused murder suspect right in the face. Researchers here are using a powerful transmission electron microscope to examine a virus that was unknown to science just a month ago. This minuscule particle of protein-encrusted RNA is almost certainly the microbe that had, by last Saturday, infected more than 2,400 people in 19 countries — including 20 in Europe — and killed at least 89 since it began its rampage through the human population in China last fall. Projected onto a...