Allison Brovina. She was looking through an old fashioned microscope at a slide. "It's breathing. You can see the skin contracting and pores pulling in air." "And we can assume from the tests that it's actually getting oxygen from the air and distributing it directly to the tissues," added Dr. Tell Charles. "It's part of the reason it's so hard to kill them." Dr. Brovina sat back in the stool and swiveled around to face Dr. Charles. "But is it a virus or some other agent? We sure didn't create it, at least not to my knowledge. And the EMP didn't cause it either." She paused and shook her head. "Without an SEM or a tunneling microscope, we might never know." "But it's gone, why is it gone? The original vector seems to have disappeared!" "Which points even more to an artificial agent. It's certainly widespread, at least as far as we can tell. Without communications, we can't even talk to the CDC—or anyone else, for that matter." "I thought our gear was hardened against this," said Dr.
