Germ

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Ebola is one of the most lethal viruses known to man.

 With each outbreak, a higher percentage of people who contract it die. In 1995, an airborne strain of Ebola was discovered. Even thirty years after the first Ebola outbreak, no one knows where it came from or where it resides when it is absent from humans or monkeys.

The Guthrie test, also called a PKU test, was developed by Robert Guthrie in 1962. It involves drawing a sample of blood from a newborn's heel and helps diagnose certain genetic diseases, such as phenylketonuria. It is routinely administered to all babies born in industrialized nations.

Most Guthrie cards, with these blood spots, are stored in warehouses and never destroyed.

The blood on these cards contains DNA that identifies the donors.

With the advent of gene splicing, scientists are capable of encoding viruses with human DNA.

Theoretically, this gives viruses the ability to find specific DNA to find you.

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