The question didn't actually seem that weird to Cecilia. It was a reasonable enough concern, in her mind. They didn't know why they were here or what the motivations of the bastards were. Putting them in an environment with some strange new disease just to see how fast it spreads wasn't so crazy an explanation as any of the others Cecilia had come up with.
"No," she answered gently, shaking her head. "It's not contagious. The only one in danger is the one going through it. As for the rest of us? Just a matter of whether or not people panic when they realize the depths of depravity these bastards are capable of."