CHAPTER 10
FILOVIRIDAE. ONE TINY word, a family of tiny viruses, but they could be oh-so-deadly. Ebola, Marburg, and the more recently discovered Cuevavirus, in all their terrifying variants. With a fatality rate as high as ninety percent of those infected, there was no organism more dangerous.
As long as the viruses stayed in the jungle where they came from, they didn’t cause too many problems. But every so often, one of them would sneak out, usually into a remote village where a lack of modern healthcare and understanding of the symptoms meant an isolated case could turn into an epidemic. And a global crisis.
During the last outbreak, world governments went crazy for a couple of months, dishing out cash for research like candy at a birthday party. I’d managed to snag enough for my cur
