Last May, an elderly man was admitted to the Brooklyn branch of Mount Sinai Hospital for abdominal surgery. A blood test revealed that he was infected with a newly discovered germ as deadly as it was mysterious. Doctors swiftly isolated him in the intensive care unit.
New York Times: A mysterious infection, spanning the globe in a climate of secrecy
This NOAA/JMA image obtained Feb. 12, 2016 shows the Earth taken from the Himawari-8 satellite on Feb. 10, 2016.
