Chapter 14 - Immunity
THEY WORKED THROUGH the day in what seemed to be armed truce. There was no coffee waiting for him when he awoke next, as he’d come to expect, but he didn’t comment. He went to where she was already working, checking on the results of the plasma on the cultures.
The response had been slower than with the mouse blood, but now the bugs seemed to be dead. The filaments were destroyed, and there were no signs of the big cells. It seemed to be a cure, at least in the culture bottles.
“We’ll need volunteers,” he decided. “There should be animals, but we don’t have any. At least this stuff isn’t toxic. We need a natural immune and someone infected. Two of each, so one can be treated and the other used for a control. Makes four. Not enough to be sure, but it will have to do
