Yeah, they fed some of the rocks into a Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (GC/MS). That machine can detect a teeny tiny amount of substance.

Yay technology! Also, am thankful for modern medicine and epidemiologists who help contain outbreaks :)

I wonder how it ended (which it did by itself, I think), given that it was so virulent.

Puppies make everything better!

Let's do it, Edward! Find the next neat stuff we can feature on Neatorama.

This is clever - I think some nursing homes use that trick to keep runaway patients from actually going anywhere.

I hear of people marching some distance carrying their own weight in a backpack, so slow difficult movement should be above 2g. They seem to be assuming a person would train for this, so it is not like a random Joe is just dumped there and expected to walk around.

3g is often cited as a limit for space craft in situations where astronauts are expected to reach controls above them from a reclined position and that is not an absolute limit, but has some safety margin.

The paper calculates 4.6g max for walking using numbers world-record log carry, and later says 3.5g is more reasonable for a trained athlete. That doesn't seem that unreasonable to me, even if I would guess it is a bit on the high side.

In a reclined position, people can handle quite a bit more, so using an appropriately designed wheel chair they could go probably to almost twice that...