The new epidemic is already beyond its patient zero.

Whether or not I'm infected, I'm confident that Mr. Broadstarles soon have me murdered.

He'll do this in order to keep the disease's name unknown.

I don't let him know.

At least not completely.

Although this may be the most important right up in my life, I admit that I may somehow

still be wrong in my medical assessment.

It is possible that I'm simply losing my mind.

For that reason I will not violate my oaths as a physician.

That said, what follows are the facts of this case.

To the best of my knowledge.

I'm a hospice physician, and a patient under my care is dying of something contagious

for which there is no official name.

My efforts to perform independent research are being suppressed.

I suspect that I'll soon be silenced permanently.

As I attend to the palliative needs of what is likely the new disease's index case, I'll

do my best to report what I have learned during my patient's final days.

I suspect that the virus must be a new mutation.

The patient's history suggests that this is an extreme latency virus with a highly variable

incubation period, and likely infect a person without producing any symptoms at all at first.

This asymptomatic period may last for an extended period of time.

The virus is probably also never fully eliminated by the immune system of an infected person,

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