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He sat at his desk, watching the infection models as they spread out across North A they really had before they found out whether or not the Mayday Ared to destroy mankind--with the help of Dr Alexander Kellis, of course

"Cheer up, Will!" called one of his colleagues, passing by on the way to the break room "A pandemic disease thatwe’ve ever had to deal with"

"And what’s it going to do to us in a year, Chris?" Dr Matras shot back

Dr Chris Sinclair grinned "Raise the dead, of course," he said "Don’t you ever go to theDr Matras alone to brood

The Centers for Disease Control have issued a state that people reen froinia-based lab of Dr Alexander Kellis "We do not, as yet, have any indication that this disease is harmful to humans," said Dr Chris Sinclair A seven-year veteran of the Epideraduated from Princeton…

July 2, 2014: Denver, Colorado

Janice Barton knocked twice on the door to Dr Wells’s office before opening it and stepping inside, expression drawn "Do you think you can see three more patients today?" she asked, without preaers clenching involuntarily on his pen "I’ve already seen nine patients since four! I’ve barely finished filing the insurance infore How am I supposed to see three ree to see three more, I can probably convince the other nineteen to come back tomorrow," Janice replied For the first time, Dr Wells realized how harried his normally composed administrative assistant looked Her nails were chipped Son of all A …so…and Janice had allowed her manicure to fray

"I’ll see the three most in need of attention, and then I have to close for the night," he said, putting down his pen as he stood "If I don’t get some sleep, I won’t be of any use to anyone"

"They’re all in need of attention I can’t choose But thank you," said Janice, and withdrew

She was gone by the ti to wherever it was she hen she was tired of dealing with theroom On the days when it was a athered patients set up a cla for his attention, so at the crowd, and wondered if the other doctors involved in the Marburg A the same experience

He was deeply afraid that they were

The trouble wasn’t the patients themselves; they looked as hale and healthy as ever, which explained how they were able to yell so loudly for his attention Their cancers were gone, or under control, constantly besieged by their defensive Marburg Aht to the office with the problem Husbands and wives, parents and children, they sat next to their previously ill relatives with glazed eyes, taking shallow, painful-sounding breaths So fro life-threatening, but that little trickle was enough to terrify Dr Wells,his bowels feel loose and his stons of a Marburg A the brief phase where the body’s immune system attempted to treat the helper virus as an invasion That was the one stage of infection that could be truly har Amberlee was hit, it hit back, and it wasthe opposition than it was in preserving the host These people were infected, all of the Ah casual contact--or at least, it wasn’t supposed to be, and if the trials had been wrong about that, what else could they have been wrong about? Pointing almost at random, he said, "You, you, and you I can see you before we close Everyone else, I’ to have to come back tomorrow See Janice before you leave, she’ll set you up with an appointh the room "My baby’s sick!" shouted one wo cancer She’d called hi at hi to do about it?"

"I’ to see you tomorrow," said Dr Wells firh the door between the reception area and the exa of dread growing stronger

He honestly had no idea what he was going to do

Ruic fever in and around the Colorado Cancer Research Center are currently unsubstantiated The center’s head doctor, Daniel Wells, is unavailable for comment at this time

July 4, 2014: Allentown, Pennsylvania

The streets of Allentoere decked in patriotic red, white, and blue, sy independence That word had never see at every red strea he could jump up on a bench and tell everyone in earshot hoas responsible for their true independence How he, working in the best interests of ranted them independence from illness, freedo on the beach, sipping soft drinks and enjoying their liberty froive him a medal, or at least carry him around the city on their shoulders