11.   Last year, officials around southern New York state scrambled to find laboratories capable of identifying the virus, shipping some samples as far as California and Wisconsin.

12.   Lucy believes she contracted the disease on the job as a health care worker, before the virus was identified.

13.   PCR is used for plasma screening and to identify viruses found in blood samples.

14.   Programs like Norton identify viruses by what is called a signature.

15.   Some hostile macro viruses have been identified.

16.   State and federal health officials praise HRP Inc., or Hazleton Research Products, for identifying the virus quickly and alerting them.

17.   The Columbia team did not actually identify the virus as the San Francisco team has done.

18.   The number of positive tests in lakes that have suffered fish kills has declined since the virus was first identified as the cause.

19.   The program will identify the virus and describe what, if any, damage it has done.

20.   The scientist who initially identified the virus as St. Louis encephalitis said he had changed his mind, according to an official who was present.