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Then there is the little-known family of organisms called hantaviruses, which swarm in the micro-haze above the feces of mice and rats and are hoovered into the human respiratory system by anyone unlucky enough to stick a breathing orifice near them—by lying down, say, on a sleeping platform over which infected mice have recently scampered.

Wets, designed to channel water away from underneath the tyres, maximise grip and minimise the chance of aquaplaning.

And researchers at the National Institutes of Health report finding candidalike fungus infections in the blood of AIDS victims.