CHAPTER 14
WOOHOO! I WANTED to dance around the lab, but that would have been tricky in a hazmat suit. Instead, I settled for grinning behind my visor and high-fiving Chet, my Canadian lab assistant.
The six marmosets I’d vaccinated on Wednesday showed a slight fever yesterday, but today their temperatures were back to normal, and the polymerase chain reaction test I’d just run showed the vaccine replicating in the non-human primates—NHPs in lab-speak, monkeys in English.
I’d never managed to get a reaction that fast before. The other vaccines I’d trialled either took weeks to show an immune reaction, or they never did at all.
But this?
This gave me hope.
“All these years of work are finally starting to pay off, eh?” Chet’s voice came through my earpiece. Our hazmat gear came with in
