Summary

In Chapter 11, in a conference call, Henry learned from Catherine Lord, the chief medical officer at CDC in Atlanta, that the disease they were dealing with was probably a new form of influenza. Because there had been no cases reported in Jakarta, they believed that they had it contained and could keep it that way until they could produce a vaccine. Bambang’s exposure to the virus and trip to Mecca was concerning, but they believed they could easily find him and put him in quarantine.

In Chapter 12, Henry compared the virus to the 1918 flu pandemic where 500 million people were sickened. Twenty percent of those died. No one was sure where it originated, just like the modern virus. Also like the modern virus, it killed a disproportionately high number of young people. Both diseases were hemorrhagic with the lungs dissolving into a...