Pestilence - A Medical Thriller (The Plague Trilogy) by Victor Methos

Author:Victor Methos [Methos, Victor]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-08-10T22:00:00+00:00

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The helicopter, a dull green with gray splotches, touched down not far from where Samantha was standing. She watched as two men came out, ducking their heads low, though they couldn’t possibly have touched the rotating blades unless they jumped. One of them was Clyde Olsen.

“Tell me you didn’t go through that entire batch of vaccines?” he said, coming up to them.

“Isn’t that the point?” Duncan asked.

His face contorted as if he’d eaten something sour. “The vaccines were… ineffective. We had inoculated a group about five hours before you’d arrived… They’re beginning to show symptoms.”

“Symptoms?” Sam said angrily.

“It was a risk we had to take, and they were fully informed. They chose to take it.”

“They shouldn’t be displaying symptoms for at least a day,” Duncan said.

“It’s… The damn thing is mutating so fast, we can’t keep up. Its incubation period has gone from seventy-two hours down to four.”

“We have to get these people quarantined,” Sam said.

“Already taken care of. I… uh, about the vaccines… One of the groups… I don’t quite know how to say this.”

Samantha’s stomach was in knots. He didn’t have to say it. She already knew. Her sister had been one of the ones inoculated.

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