Chapter Nineteen Three months had passed since Brutch left the African soil in an emergency medical plane. People in Businga had lost hope. Local doctors had united and tried to find alternative ways to save their patients and prevent the progress of the outbreak. Since the beginning of the epidemic thousands of people had died while others had survived. With the small number of people who survived the infection, Dr. Molimo and his colleagues had extensively studied the factors involved. Among the factors they found, antibodies played a major role in terms of natural defence against the infection. After an extensive study of the white blood cells of the survivors, they had seen that the antibodies in these patients had developed a very strong natural defence mechanism against the infect

