Shine 9 (Part 7)
Jul. 18th, 2006 05:45 pmclick for part | one | two | three | four | five | six
Francine’s smile was back in full, wide, toothy force. After three days of tests and trials and errors she’d located the cause of Dean’s steadily growing fever and breathing difficulty. She stood with John and Sam just outside his room.
“It’s definitely a lower respiratory tract infection. It’s a non-infectious strain that the CDC’s been tracking out of Asia. That’s why it took so long to pinpoint; non-infectious strains aren’t red flagged so you have to wade through all the higher risk strains before you hit this territory. Whatever attacked Dean must have come into very close blood-to-surface contact with an infected person.” John thought that was a morbidly cute way to say ‘must have ripped an infected person to shreds.’ ( Shine 9 . . . )
Francine’s smile was back in full, wide, toothy force. After three days of tests and trials and errors she’d located the cause of Dean’s steadily growing fever and breathing difficulty. She stood with John and Sam just outside his room.
“It’s definitely a lower respiratory tract infection. It’s a non-infectious strain that the CDC’s been tracking out of Asia. That’s why it took so long to pinpoint; non-infectious strains aren’t red flagged so you have to wade through all the higher risk strains before you hit this territory. Whatever attacked Dean must have come into very close blood-to-surface contact with an infected person.” John thought that was a morbidly cute way to say ‘must have ripped an infected person to shreds.’ ( Shine 9 . . . )
