Ebola K: A Terrorism Thriller by Bobby Adair

Author:Bobby Adair
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: thriller, dystopian, thriller action, ebola, thriller adventure, ebola virus, apocalylpse, thriller suspence, apocalypitic, thriller terrorism

Chapter 33

Dr. Wheeler waved Dr. Gonzalez in to join them. “Olivia, this is Dr. Gonzalez, one of my coworkers at the CDC. Dr. Gonzalez, this is Olivia Cooper. She was at my presentation and acknowledges that this is an NSA building, without admitting that she works here.”

Olivia spun in her chair to face Gonzalez and extended a hand. “Pleased to meet you.”

Dr. Gonzalez pulled away from Olivia.

Dr. Wheeler said, “He’s a germophobe.”

“Careful is a better word,” said Dr. Gonzalez.

Wheeler said, “Olivia and I were talking about her brother. He’s in Uganda this summer. I was telling her that he’s probably safe from the Ebola outbreak. As you know the outbreak is in West Africa. Uganda is pretty far from there.”

Dr. Gonzalez seated himself on the same side of the table as Olivia, but left an empty chair between them, fussily arranging his computer bag on the conference table. “Uganda. Where?”

“Um,” Olivia thought about it for a minute. “A little farming town. It’s…uh…Kapchorwa?”

“Never heard of it,” said Gonzalez. “Wheeler, open up a map of Africa on your computer.”

Wheeler rolled his eyes and winked at Olivia.

“I saw that,” Gonzalez said. “I’m eccentric, not oblivious.”

“Right.” Wheeler manipulated the mouse and typed. A few seconds later, he turned the computer sideways on the conference table so that everyone could see the screen.

Olivia leaned forward.

Gonzalez leaned back.

“Zoom in over here.” Olivia pointed.

Wheeler did as instructed and zoomed the map in on the eastern half of the country.

Olivia leaned in a little further and pointed to a spot just above a big blob of green. “That’s it there, just north of that park.” She sat back.

Gonzalez leaned forward. “Zoom out, Wheeler.”

Dr. Wheeler fiddled with the wheel on his mouse. “That’s Mt. Elgon National Park.”

Dr. Gonzalez sighed.

Olivia looked at Dr. Gonzalez, who said nothing to elaborate. She looked at Wheeler. He was wearing his poker face. Olivia frowned and looked back at Gonzalez. “What?”

The doctor opened his mouth to speak as Dr. Wheeler cut him off. “Olivia, before you listen to him, you need to know a quarter million people—maybe more—live within a dozen miles of the base of that mountain.”

She looked at Gonzalez. “What? You sighed dramatically like Austin’s in Godzilla’s backyard.”

Dr. Gonzalez pulled a face. “I thought Austin was in Texas.”

With a dramatic eye roll, Olivia said, “My brother’s name is Austin, Austin Cooper. Now tell me what’s wrong? Why the sigh?”

Dr. Gonzalez seemed to think about Olivia’s request for a moment as his face went through changes of expression. “You’ve heard of the Marburg virus?”

“Yes,” she answered, using information she’d gleaned from Dr. Wheeler’s presentation. “It’s similar to Ebola. The first Filovirus discovered. Named for Marburg, the city in Germany where factory workers at a company making polio vaccines got sick, I think. Thirty-something infected? Seven or eight died?”

“Good memory,” Dr. Gonzalez was impressed. “Not to put too much of a scare into you, but the monkeys that carried the virus to Marburg were imported from Uganda.”

“That’s enough, Steve.”

Olivia shot Dr. Wheeler a disapproving look, then shifted attention back to Dr.

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