Chapter 29
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iberated from its frozen, lifeless past, the VRSA had found a home. Dr. Dakine and the HazMat teams had scoured the university and the university hospital. They found the bacteria on hundreds of surfaces and on hundreds of patients, visitors, nurses, and, perhaps more importantly, the doors and handles of the exits.
‘I don’t think there is much else we can accomplish here, General,’ said Maria Dakine. ‘We’ve found the Staph throughout the buildings and the hospital. With a new procedure, I can quickly identify a unique protein on its cell wall. However, to make matters worse, we’ve detected it on surfaces on the main UW campus and also at Children’s Hospital.’
The general was silent for a moment and in an uncharacteristically soft voice said, ‘I was at that hospital with G
