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Eric interrupted “People eaker ihout the day, and, as , everyone was dressed to party”
“Sa if a poison was applied to surfaces around the ship like handrails and doorknobs,” Murph concluded “The killer couldn’t guarantee that they would get to everyone”
“So you think it was the food?” Julia asked, unable to find fault in their logic
“Has to be Juan didn’t eat anything while he was on board, and I bet she didn’t eat tonight either” Murphy jerked his head at the glass partition separating the lab from isolation
“To be on the safe side,” Eric said, “we also ran some nuine roo in when Juan cut his suit would have cut the viral load or toxicity levels down from parts per million to parts per hundreds of billions”
Murph crossed his arms “Besides, it’s been five hours since the Chairman’s exposure Froation of your patient aboard the ship, her friends visited her just an hour or two before they were hit Juan and the hottie are fine”
Julia had already co Juan, but she wasn’t convinced these tere right about Jannike Diagnosis was about dogged research, checking and double-checking lab results, until you knehat you were faced with Just because she hadn’t found a virus in Janni’s blood, spinal fluid, saliva, or urine didn’tin her kidney or liver or so silently to explode out and overwhelm Janni’s immune systeon’s crew
She shook her head, “Sorry, boys, but that’s not good enough for ht about Juan, but Jannike stays in isolation until I am one hundred percent certain she isn’t infected”
“You’re the doctor, Doc, but it’s a waste of time She isn’t”
“It’s my time to waste, Mark” She pushed back on her wheeled lab stool and rolled across the tiled floor to an intercom mounted on the wall She hit the button “Juan, can you hear me?”
Inside the ward, Cabrillo jerked upright in the chair Rather then dwell on the fact his body could be harboring a deadly infection, he’d fallen asleep He stood and threw Julia a thuathered up the spare batteries used to keep his haz
“You’re cleared,” Julia said “You can head into the air lock for a decontamination shower Go ahead and leave the suit inside I’ll dispose of it later”
It took fifteen minutes to cycle the air lock to the isolation ward and for Juan to stand under a thundering shower of bleach and antiviral agents before it was safe for him to hop into the lab
“Wow, you’re aher nose
“You spend that much time sweati