Microbe Hunter Paul de Kruef, Doctor Arrow Smith of Sinclair Lewis’s creation, Emile Zola of Devil’s Island fame, DoctorErlich of the “Magic Bullet”, Madame Curie and her husband Pierre, in the laboratory, testing antibodies into the immune system.
Florence Nightingale where are you, when the planet desperately needs you?
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A quantum leap back to a typhoid fever coma of 30 days, the final rites for the asking, when a blood transfusion turned the death rattle, the patient’s eyes opening.
The chief nurse in her operative protective gear, Only slits for eyes, the quarantined gear covering her, protective from infectious diseases…tThe constancy shift I n the contagious stream of consciousness, a revision in the protocols
Here then is the crucible. The high stakes of crunching survival A breathtaking emboli virus infection, sweeping from one Continent to North America..
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Hold back the dawn playing out at Maimonides, Mt Sinai, Lenox Hill, Mt. Sinai, Columbia Presbyterian , Queens Hospitals…..
October 15, 2014 The City that never sleeps
