February 16th 10:30 pm
WHAT A WASTE OF TIME!!!! ALL I’VE DONE IN THE PAST 9 HOURS HAVE AMOUNTED TO NOTHING! Let me explain. After the monkey experiments, I thought that rats injected with heparin (an anti-clotting drug) would be able to withstand the disease. I was wrong. I injected rats with varying doses of the drug and put them into an infected room. The first rat lasted only about 5 seconds, and most had died after one minute. One rat that had a massive dose lasted about 3 minutes, but then it too died. I was frustrated by the results. I discarded the rats and started to autopsy the first of all the rats that we had infected, back at the room with the capsule. I autopsied the test monkey too. This took me hours, but amounted to nothing. I learned nothing AT ALL. I hope that the others had a more successful day. It’s almost time for our midnight conference.
Well, there’s at least one good thing. Hall talked to Mr. Jackson, the elderly survivor. It turns out that he was drinking and taking medicine, which made his blood acidic. We think that this might be how he survived, because the disease probably can’t survive in acidic blood. Now that’s news. Even better: Leavitt and Stone found out about the disease. It turns out that the capsule probably collided with the disease in the atmosphere, which is why the satellite veered off course. Also, the disease appears to be green and pulses green and purple when it multiplies. There is more to this than we thought. Unfortunately the team agreed that we needed more sleep in order to make fewer mistakes, which means that I’ll have to give up this journal, at least until this is all over. I plan to write when I have time later. Until then, best wishes.
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