And no, I'm not talking about the politics (though it is). I'm talking about the air:

A federal air monitoring system designed to monitor threats to human health in the Puget Sound region recently identified bacteria that can cause tularemia, an infectious disease, in a daily air sample taken from a monitoring station in east King County.

Tularemia is a nasty disease that causes flu-like symptoms, and ultimately, respiratory failure, unless treated early with antibiotics. Aerosolized, it's also an ideal candidate for a "bioterror" attack, which is why we're monitoring the air for it in the first place, as part of the federal Biowatch program.

But in this case, the levels detected were low, and the likely culprits were wild rabbits, which commonly carry the disease. Killer rabbits, but rabbits nonetheless.