"Richard Preston - The Hot Zone2" - читать интересную книгу автора (Preston Richard)

PLEASE MAINTAIN SILENCE
YOUR COOPERATION WILL BE APPRECIATED.

NOTE: THIS IS A CASUALTY DEPARTMENT.
EMERGENCY CASES WILL BE TAKEN IN PRIORITY.
YOU MAY BE REQUIRED TO WAIT FOR SUCH CASES
BEFORE RECEIVING ATTENTION

Monet maintains silence, waiting to receive attention. Suddenly he
goes into the last phase. The human virus bomb explodes. Military
biohazard specialists have ways of describing this occurrence. They say
that the victim has "crashed and bled out". Or more politely they say
that the victim has "gone down".
He becomes dizzy and utterly weak, and his spine goes limp and
nerveless and he loses all sense of balance. The room is turning around
and around. He is going into shock. He leans over, head on his knees,
and brings up an incredible quantity of blood from his stomach and spills
it onto the floor with a gasping groan. He loses consciousness and
pitches forward onto the floor. The only sound is a choking in his throat
as he continues to vomit while unconscious. Then come a sound like
bedside being torn in half, which is the sound of his bowels opening and
venting blood from sloughed his gut. The linings of his intestines have
come off and are being expelled along with huge amount of blood. Monet



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has crashed and is bleeding out.
The other patients in the waiting room stand up and move away from
the man on the floor, calling for a doctor. Pools of blood spread out
around him, enlarging rapidly. Having destroyed its host, the agent is
now coming out of every orifice, and is "trying" to find a new host.

JUMPER

1980 JANUARY 15


NURSES AND AIDES came running, pushing a gurney along with them, and they
lifted Charles Monet onto the gurney and wheeled him into the intensive
care unit at Nairobi Hospital. A call for a doctor went out over the
loudspeakers: a patient was bleeding in the ICU. A young doctor named
Shem Musoke ran to the scene. Dr. Musoke was widely considered to be one
of the best young physicians at the hospital, an energetic man with a warm
sense of humor, who worked long hours and had a good feel for emergencies.