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"*#tlkling32", and stopped cold when he saw the warning signs posted on the door. Okay, he thought, donning a mask and gloves, then walking in.
"Hi, Joe."
"I don't want to make this call without you, Professor," Quinn said quietly, hand- ing the chart over.
Klein scanned it, then his brain stopped cold, and he started from the beginning, looking up to compare the patient with the data. Female Caucasian, yes, age forty-one, about right, divorced, that was her business, apartment about two miles away, fine, temperature on admission 104.4, pretty damn high, BP, that was awfully low. Pe-
techiae?
"Let me take a look here," Klein said. The patient was coming around. The head was moving a little, and she was making some noise. "What's her temp now?"
"One-oh-two-two, coming down nicely," the admitting resident replied, as Klein pulled the green sheet back. The patient was nude now, and the marks could hardly have been more plain on her otherwise very fair skin. Klein looked at the other doc- tors.
"Where's she been?"
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"Animal bites?" Klein asked.
"None. No evidence of needles, nothing unusual at all. She's clean."
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"I air max shoes thought these viruses only passed-"
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I've seen Lassa and Q fever. Haven't seen Ebola. But what she has looks a hell of alot
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"But how-"
*EXECUTIVEORDERS*
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"Right there." The admitting physician pointed to a red plastic container.
"What's next? Quinn asked.
"We get a sample off to Atlanta, but I think I'm going to take a look myself." Klein had a superb laboratory in which he worke

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