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Carriers QUOTES

1 " Carmen kicked at the dirt. She couldn't equate finding the virus at home with good luck. It was powerful, this thing, ruthless, a perfectly honed survivor for who knew how many millennia. Perhaps it was old as life itself, a malevolent offshoot of the first sampling of creation. Yet Leigh and Daintith thought they could track it to its lair and swat it like some bothersome insect. "

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2 " Wait a minute George. You don't mean you broke in?"
"No, not exactly. Well . . . is this line secure?"
"Absolutely."
"Then yes. "

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3 " A few days into the illness, they'll get a rash. With Marburg and Ebola the throat and conjunctivae get inflamed and there are small transparent lesions like tapioca granules in the soft palate. Then they start to bleed with a paradoxical combination of blood clots and hemorrhaging. The clots lodge in the brain, liver, spleen, and the hemorrhaging accelerates until the body cavities fill up with blood. Death comes some six to seven days after the first symptom, either from a massive stroke, or from shock. "

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4 " The action of the virus is unique. It begins by attacking the respiratory system, the lining of the lungs and the bronchial in particular. The victim develops a cough, which serves to propagate the virus. Then it spreads to the other internal organs and the brain. We know of no other viral epidemic where the pattern of symptoms match this one. It's a virus that we've never seen before. "

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5 " Bickering and sulking, they moved into the margins of Ahmad's hunting ground. The jungle had changed too. Now that the shine had been knocked off their original purpose, it seemed more forbidding than ever, more of an obstacle. "

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6 " Holly, your children are the source of all this. Holly, they weren't the victims, they were the cause. "

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7 " The carriers of the altered genes must have come into contact with an antigen that triggered the production of a virus, until that moment dormant in their DNA. Even now, now that she had all the pieces, Carmen could still hardly believe it. It was too terrible, too cruel. It made no difference to the children's suffering〰they would have succumbed immediately, passing the virus on to the others before they died. Holly was the one who was going to suffer. She would see it as her fault: the direct consequence of her desire for healthy offspring. All that terrible suffering, all that black putrification and agony, flowing from her loins. "

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8 " They're here,' holly said in a whisper. 'I can feel it.' She was trembling all over. The men turned to look. Carmen slowly shook her head, though her heart was quickening. She took the fruit from Holly and tossed it into the bushes.
'No, Holly. It's Impossible.'
She was on the point of explaining--your children cannot have escaped the disease, they were the cause--when it came to her, the idea rushing into focus like an oncoming truck: they are immune. "

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