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Miguel (miguel_ohara) wrote in compass_network,
@ 2018-05-18 23:02:00

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[OoC: Posted after this discussion with Sophia and this discussion with Tim]

Good evening.

If you've gone on the network, you've probably seen where I put up a post asking for samples in order to build a genetic database for the station.

Sophia and Tim have mentioned a pretty nasty-sounding blood infection coming from Sophia's homeworld, which reanimates a corpse's brain stem after death. Tim's also worried about his daughter in relation to this infection. Both of them have given me permission to discuss this with you, and Sophia's mentioned looking for her medical records from the Island as well since her primary physician isn't on the Station.

I want to minimize the risk for the rest of the Station. Are there any protocols or procedures in place for dealing with this infection I should know about? My basic plan of action so far is pretty simple; I'd like to take these blood samples in the medbay, if that's possible, and I'll do the analysis of the samples there before destroying them once I'm finished. I've never heard of anything like this infection before outside of fiction, so would anyone who knows about it be willing to teach me whatever they can about it? And can we cure this?

Thanks,

Miguel

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	drhenrymorganmd 2018-05-18 11:27 pm UTC (link)
	I did find a file cabinet with medical folders from the island. I'm still going through it and haven't come across Sophia's yet but it is alphabetical by last name. I've never seen this type of infection either. If it can be passed from parent to child we must also check their sexual partners to be safe. And we can definitely keep a sample to work on finding a cure. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	miguel_ohara 2018-05-19 09:20 pm UTC (link)
	A file cabinet? Do you mean paper records? We don't need to keep a physical copy. Once I've worked on it, we'll have a perfect digitized replica that will be completely safe and non-contagious. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	drhenrymorganmd 2018-05-19 09:25 pm UTC (link)
	Back on the island I had actual paper medical records for all my patients. I'm working on digitizing them, though. It seems a bit impractical with all of the current technology. I think the first thing we need to determine is how its spread. Then we can work on keeping it from doing so. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	miguel_ohara 2018-05-19 09:49 pm UTC (link)
	If I can help with that, let me know. If we get Sophia's notes and Richie shares what he knows, I think that'd be a good starting point. We can determine how it's spread like you said, the type of infection it is, what's been done previously in this timeline and so on. (Reply to this) (Parent)

richardstark
2018-05-19 05:08 pm UTC (link)

We dealt with this before in my original timeline, though I wasn't old enough to do the work myself at the time. My mentor Greg House was fascinated with it ~~and liked to make crude jokes about it~~.

They weren't able to eradicate it from those already infected but they did come up with a vaccine to prevent new infections. So it is possible.

I would definitely take the samples in the medbay clean room under anti-contamination protocols. It's too dangerous to keep a sample long term though, I'd treat it like they were supposed to treat smallpox or polio and eliminate any lab samples once the work is finished on prevention. It's just not worth the risk.

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	miguel_ohara 2018-05-19 09:38 pm UTC (link)
	You've worked on it, though? Or seen it before, at least. So you could stop the spread, but not get rid of it? Can you remember what was done? Did your work show up with you so I could read up on this? I need to know those protocols. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

richardstark
2018-05-20 03:33 am UTC (link)

I studied it in my training, though that's admittedly not the same thing as actually doing the work yourself. There was never anything else like it, I'm still amazed House was able to come up the a solution with nothing else to compare it to.

That's right. Unfortunately everything is back in my original timeline. Unless my files showed up along with Dr. Morgan's filing cabinet. But between the three of us we should be able to come up with approximately what they did.

[sent a few minutes later]

...I'm damn fool. I should have the antibodies in my bloodstream, all we have to do is isolate them and reverse engineer it.

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