Even using the most exquisitely sensitive probes for the hepatitis virus, investigators could find no signs of the deadly microbe in the cured patients' cells.

A bomb-wielding murder suspect carrying a deadly microbe, flying over unpopulated jungle.

It was like a deadly microbe that had lain dormant all of those millennia, waiting for the right host to feed its virulence.

The analyst said the deadly microbes could have been manufactured for as little as $2,500.

Basically, it came off as a big crack vial floating in a puddle of deadly microbes.

His was the first known case of infection with the deadly microbe, called hantavirus, in the Northeast.

Iraq has already confessed to having made enough deadly microbes to kill all the people on Earth several times over.

MANY recent books have followed medical sleuths probing a dangerous "hot zone," where deadly microbes spread from remote places.

All governments have an interest in preventing deadly microbes from being used against civilian populations.

The global war against infectious disease has produced more than 1,500 germ banks that tend to trade freely in deadly microbes.