I had a great talk with Kwang Jingshu, a medical doctor. He just never stopped talking. He also mentioned that there was no running water, and no electricity and power in Chongqing. I would have a very difficult time living there. He told me the story how the "plague" began. It began when a twelve year old child and his father went "moon fishing", diving for treasure among the sunken ruins of the Three Gorges Reservoir, and the boy was bitten. How can something so violent and contagious end up being in the water. Was it a small shark? I have no clue.He didn't see what bit him because the water was too dark. Later, there were six patients that had this "infection". They all had similar symptoms, and all had similar wounds in various parts of there body. "Patient Zero", the boy, was in horrible condition. His skin was cold and gray and Kwang Jingshu couldn't find a pulse. He was moving uncontrollably. Dr. Jingshu had to call the largest villagers to help him hold the boy down to get a blood sample. His blood was brown. This little outbreak couldn't spread throughout he whole world, can it?
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I agree with you in the fact that I would have found it really difficult to live there, also, being that there is no running water or electricity. It was interesting to see that you had also had a shark in mind when talking about the "thing" that bit the boy. I was thinking shark as soon as I read it in the book.
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