When she turns him down, feeling it's unprofessional to date your colleagues, it bruises his male ego, and throughout the rest of the book he treats her very rudely, and even gets her fired. When they get an outbreak of Ebola in St louis, Dr Dubchek let's Marissa know that he's attracted to her, and would like to go out with her. 'Your Ebola is really deadly - as bad as Zaire '76 strain.' "ĭr Dubchek is her immediate Superior at the CDC, and is the one responsible for continually rejecting her request for clearance to the lab. 'I just inoculated these guys this afternoon, and most have already died.' he looked at marissa.
He was going to show them to marissa, but he stopped. In a far section of the room, Tad pulled out of tray of what he called Swiss ice mice. Marissa could see hundreds of eyes staring at her: some listless, some with fevered hatred. There were monkeys, rabbits, Guinea pigs, rats and mice. "Finally he led her down a passageway to a maze of animal cages that reached almost to the ceiling.
She talks him into showing her the lab, even though it's required to have clearance to enter. Tad is a worker at the CDC in charge of the lab. And she's not above using her charms to get what she wants. Marissa has quite a few admirers among her colleagues, being petite and young. That's all we have now, But at the time (the 80s) it was a new thing, that not all doctors were on board with. He's the founder of a clinic / hospital that is one of the first to have prepaid medical insurance. When there's an outbreak of some extremely contagious disease, in Los angeles, she is sent by the CDC to see if she can be of help.Īn ophthalmologist named Richter has come down with a viral hemorrhagic fever. "Marissa" is a former pediatrician, who took one course in epidemics, and got a job at the CDC.
Liver and spleen sections will be far better than blood.' " 'We sacrificed the animal last night and sent specimens back to the center. 'I didn't get samples from the monkey,' admitted Marissa quickly. 'And I think the monkey will turn out to be the culprit.' " 'if it proves to be African viral hemorrhagic fever,' added Dr eckenstein. It's something abhorrent to me, and it's the reason why I make sure that any health and beauty products I buy are not tested on animals. Since this book has to do with an outbreak of ebola, it has to do with testing on animals, too.
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