February 16th 11:00 am
Leavitt and Stone are investigating the capsule, and Hall is working with the two survivors. In the mean time, I’m going to autopsy the dead rat, which is annoying because Leavitt is more qualified to do this work. It’s alright though, I enjoy the work. I started with the dead test rat. I put the dead rat in a cage, and put another (live) rat in the same cage. The living rat flopped over, dead. Airborne transmission. Rather interesting. Next I took another live rat and connected its cage with the two dead rats, but this time I inserted a miniscule filter that would allow a small virus through in between the cages. The rat lived. I continued to increase the size of the filter until the living rat died. The size of the filter that let the disease through was 2 microns, the size of a small cell. Very interesting.
Next I emptied the cages of air until it was a vacuum. Then I replaced the air in the cages with clean, fresh air. After that I put a live rat in the cages where the dead rats were. Nothing happened. Dead animals were not contagious. Now I had to find how the disease killed its victims. How to test this baffled me. And then I thought of something. I could test where the blood started to clot in diseased animals. I did several tests on a monkey and found out the disease clotted the animal from the lungs outward. Things are going quite well.
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