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Finally, Shaun spoke “George?”

“Yeah?”

“I don’t think you’re a paranoid freak anye closer “Check the sharps bin and see if there are any isolation bags left We need to vacuum seal this before we take it out of here, and I don’t trust our biohazard baggies”

“Why?” Rick asked “They did the Nguyen-Morrison”

“Because there’s only one thing I can think of that someone would inject into a perfectly healthy animal that then turns around and beco at the syringe wasme feel nauseous Shaun could have stepped on that He could have put his foot dorong and

New thought, Georgia New thought

“Syringes are watertight,” Shaun said, as he turned to head for the sharps bin “Bleach wouldn’t have been able to get inside”

“You mean—”

“Unless I’h Kellis-Amberlee to convert the entire population of Wisconsin” I se headline?

“Rebecca Ryman was murdered”

The Kellis-Amberlee virus can survive indefinitely inside a suitable host, which is to say “inside a warm-blooded, mammalian creature” No cure has been found, and while sed of viral bodies, the virus cannot be removed from the body’s soft tissues, bone enuity that created it, it is with us every day, from the moment of our conception until the day that we die

We’ll haveour lifeti to attack the body and it acts to support the i Arowths to be destroyed The synthesis of these wildly different viruses has not changed their original purposes, which is a good thing for us If we’re going to have to live with the fact that for, we et a few perks out of the deal