Inside of six months, the people left alive would fall into three categories. Many would suffer exposure from the initial release, and the rest would get it from the -A vaccine Steve Berg had developed, and through both modalities, Shiva would sweep across the world like a slow-developing storm. This new and improved version of Ebola hemorrhagic fever, genetically engineered to be hardier than the naturally produced version that still haunted the Congo River Valley, was as close to 100 percent fatal and 100 percent resistant to treatment as anything known to medical science, and absent a landmark breakthrough in infectious-disease treatment, nothing would help those exposed to it. The use of the antibiotics had merely been t-crossing and i-dotting, since not one of them helped viral infections, but in desperate times people tried desperate measures, and perhaps something new and unexpected might have happenedbut not with Shiva.
They'd even tried every antibiotic in the arsenal from penicillin to Keflex, and two new synthetics under experimentation by Merck and Horizon. They had literally tried every treatment modality known to medicine, including things merely speculated upon at CDC, USAMRIID, and the Pasteur Institute in Paris. Thank you, said Gottschalk.I need something from one of my trunks. Virginia and I have been together eighteen years.' Morris himself was wearing an old coat that was disfigured by brown cloth patches. What? Morris asked, confused by his suspicions and by Sharpe's easy manner. And the figure stood staring at me, and I heard come out of it a low rasping laughter just like the whisper before. We were on the top of some square tower, no more than fifty feet across! And I could see nothing higher in any direction. You're messing up the table, the second man said, pointing.
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