No Immunity
“Her arms ached, her blond hair was plastered flat against her scalp with sweat. The room reeked of Clorox, enough to kill every virus in Nevada. She wouldn’t be able to put a patient in this room for a week, even with the windows wide open.
She hadn’t needed to clean that ferociously. One sensible scrub would have done it. As it was, she might as well have dunked Juan and Carlos into the vat.
Juan and Carlos. An icy shiver shot through her body at the thought of them. Why had she ever agreed to... care for them? Because she was the one person who could make things happen for them. She could give them lives.
She should have realized how much time they would require. She had thought they’d be ripe for every virus in town, but until now they exhibited signs of no more than colds. But for the time they took, they might as well have had meningitis.
Oh, shit. Meningitis. Type-A meningococcal meningitis erupted in fevers, headache, nausea, vomiting. But not hemorrhaging from the eyes. Not petechiae so dense that the bleeding through the skin turned it red.MoreLess
She hadn’t needed to clean that ferociously. One sensible scrub would have done it. As it was, she might as well have dunked Juan and Carlos into the vat.
Juan and Carlos. An icy shiver shot through her body at the thought of them. Why had she ever agreed to... care for them? Because she was the one person who could make things happen for them. She could give them lives.
She should have realized how much time they would require. She had thought they’d be ripe for every virus in town, but until now they exhibited signs of no more than colds. But for the time they took, they might as well have had meningitis.
Oh, shit. Meningitis. Type-A meningococcal meningitis erupted in fevers, headache, nausea, vomiting. But not hemorrhaging from the eyes. Not petechiae so dense that the bleeding through the skin turned it red.MoreLess
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