At some point there is a lot of noise, as four-pound bombs burst open and fall around them. And then a cold sort of moist mist. They breathe the mist. They have no choice. Then they go back to their cages in the lab and live for another two or three weeks. Some of them get brucellosis, or undulant fever, which is a very unpleasant disease, but usually not fatal. All of the guinea pigs die, though, because scientists kill them so that they can look at their lungs and internal organs.

Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Sec…, loc. 197