The miracles were ordinary now, and that was the problem.
To the people of the camp, Dawud's actions were a drop of blessing, accountable and miraculous. To the handful of NGO doctors and nurses to pass through Al-Zataari, they were a statistical outlier that smelled more and more of fraud, or worse.
Dr. Aris Thorne, a Belgian epidemiologist with Médecins Sans Frontières, was the first to officially note it. He'd been tracking a strain of antibiotic-resistant E. coli in the camp water system. His warnings were grim, predicting a wave of crippling kidney infections, especially in children. He'd reported a dozen at-risk cases, one of them being a young boy, Samir.
According to each model, Samir should have been in acute renal failure by the week. Rather, Dr. Thorne discovered the boy kick
