Dr. HERMIETTA EDENBURG (Physician, Doctors Without Borders Hospital, Dubea, Democratic Republic of Congo): The history is that there is diarrhea for a couple of days, so what happens is, in that she is severely dehydrated, and she came in in a really bad state with hardly no pulse or heart action anymore, because of the dehydration.

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Once that is done, another laser pulse will jostle the virus from its ground state into an excited state, just as a single atom is excited by moving one of its electrons from a lower to a higher orbital.

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According to Andy Mazzara, the director of the Institute for Non-Lethal Defence Technologies at Pennsylvania State University, prototypes of such devices use a laser to create an ionised channel of air through which an electromagnetic pulse is directed.

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