The Mission by Robert Doherty

Author:Robert Doherty [Doherty, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Space ships, Area 51 (Nev.), High Tech, Unidentified flying objects, Political, General, Science Fiction, Plague, Adventure, Extraterrestrial beings, Fiction, Espionage
ISBN: 9780440223818
Publisher: Dell
Published: 1999-01-12T00:00:00+00:00

funds were appropriated, and Kenyon went back to Zambia with a team of experts and the proper gear to work with Level 4 bio-agents in the field. Something that had never been done before.

They went into the swamp and, after two weeks of searching, found an island where Kenyon suspected the disease might have originated among the local monkey population. A few local survivors told him that swamp people went to that island occasionally to capture monkeys for export to medical labs for experimentation. That might help explain how the disease got out of the swamp, Kenyon reasoned. They suited up and went onto the island as if it were hot. But they found nothing, and eventually Kenyon had to order them to pack up and head back. Kenyon never found out where Ebola3 came from; thus the nickname "jaunt" for the entire exercise. But he had learned a lot about taking a Level 4 lab to the field, and for that Norward was now very grateful because most of the equipment on the second helicopter was prepackaged gear that Kenyon had used on the jaunt. Kenyon had used his expertise to put together easily movable equipment that they had stored at the Institute. If ever there was a need to go virus hunting again, Kenyon had wanted to be ready.

And now they were off hunting. Several dead villages in the Amazon highlands didn't necessarily mean they had another Ebola3 on their hands, Norward knew. But if they did, at least they wouldn't be starting from scratch preparing this expedition.

In the past several decades Ebola3, Ebola, and Marburg had broken out occasionally in Africa and killed with ruthless efficiency—or propagated with amazing strength, depending on one's outlook, Norward thought. Then it had disappeared. There was still no vaccine for

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