Defending Against Affliction: An EMP Survival Story (Surviving The Shock Book 3) by Mccoy Connor

Author:Mccoy, Connor [Mccoy, Connor]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2017-05-27T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Sitting in the chair inside the laboratory of Eagleton’s only hospital, Doctor Daniel Tran’s pen scrawled the sentence in clear printing. The doctor had switched from cursive, knowing his notes were even more crucial in a time where writing could not be easily copied from a machine or reproduced in a digital file on a computer, and thus had to be easily readable.

31st day since condition of Patient Zero was discovered.

Tran updated his notes on several patients with the disease.

Jamie Cooper and Karen Edwards – Still no signs of the disease since they were released from quarantine.

These two continued drawing Tran’s interest. The pair was in contact with Cheryl Criver shortly before she went back home. The next day, she evidenced clear symptoms of the disease. Either both Cooper and Karen were immune, or they simply never contracted it from Cheryl. The pair also had been intimate following much of their time with Cheryl.

Tran flipped back a few pages, where his notes on the couple read: Can disease be spread through sexual contact? Saliva? Sperm? He even had circled the last two words for emphasis. The blood tests he had conducted on them showed neither had contracted the disease.

He shuffled the pages back to the one he was working on. He had to make a grim notation for one person. Sarah Shelton. Deceased late yesterday. Happened quickly. Husband shot by NATO soldiers. Disease hastened by depression? Mental state key to fighting disease? MUST QUESTION FRIENDS ON MENTAL STATE. He underlined the last sentence. He had to know if Mrs. Shelton had suffered from depression after losing her husband.

Tran’s pen went down a line. Rodney Lyons. Deceased yesterday. Condition rapidly deteriorated after death of his wife. Three children still unaffected. Tran stopped writing. He had had an altercation with Rodney when the man had snapped at a stricken couple, the Poitrases, and told them to go to Eagleton’s hospital to get away from him and his healthy family. In a sad irony, the Poitrases had remained alive, but the Lyonses had not.

Then he scribbled a new name: Cheryl Criver. She seemed to have been in peak physical condition. She had served as a soldier and then braved the challenges of a world where modern conveniences had been ripped from them by the EMP. Now the former U.S. army sergeant was fighting an enemy she couldn’t take out with a rifle or a grenade—this damned disease.

Condition the same, he wrote. Strong mental state? Why infected? Immune system weakened by contact with pathogens in foreign countries? Virus interaction with foreign pathogens? Perhaps Mother Nature simply refused to discriminate.

No, he thought. There are answers to everything. Tran mentally dueled with the two concepts—mindless fatalism and discoverable logic.

He added on the page: Children remain disease free. Immunity very likely. Thomas Criver remains healthy as well. Speculation ran rampant in Tran’s mind. The children all may have been vaccinated for various diseases prior to the collapse of society, so their immune systems may be strong. Tom Criver testified to receiving vaccinations as well.

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