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[Notes on Parasite Crab Infection]
Data Collected by L. Sera, R. Chambers, F. Madaraki
(as compiled by L. Sera)
The infection is caused by a neurotoxin or a viral compound in the venom of a crab bite. Onset of stage 1 symptoms occurs within several hours of infection, with pain and numbness present immediately upon injury.
So far, the infection seems to have four known stages of symptoms. Data is unfortunately imperfect and may not be flawless, as notes come from several different subjects. Notes will be provided for known symptoms/data only and no conclusions can be drawn at the moment.
Subjects:
DATA A: Chambers, Rebecca
21 / Female / AB
Notes taken by Chambers throughout Stage 1-3 of infection.
DATA B: Kennedy, Leon
28 / Male / A
Notes taken from blood sample administered by L. Sera in Stage 1.
DATA C: Madaraki, Fran
?? / Female / ??
Notes taken by Madaraki throughout Stage 1-3 of infection; Stage 4 notes taken by L. Sera based on tissue sample from infection site.
NOTE: The data for Madaraki is somewhat questionable, as there is is extremely unusual physiological... everything for her. Further study req'd?
Stage 1
Duration: 1-4 days after infection
Symptoms: Weakness, tiredness, fatigue-- by day 3 a cough develops and fever/aches may be present.
Stage 2
Duration: 5 to 12 days after infection
Symptoms: Fatigue, cough and fever continue and worsen-- appetite lessens and respiratory problems occur near the end of the second week.
Stage 3
Duration: 13 to 21 days after infection
Symptoms: All symptoms worsen-- weight loss occurs and subject is weak. Coughing slowly worsens and blood is present in sputum.
Stage 4
Duration: 22 days to...?
Symptoms: Coughing and breathing difficulties worsen. Fatigue makes movement difficult, mild delirium may be present.
Further study required re: stage 4 infection, any possible stages after. Unfortunately, caution must be taken: Infection appears to be life-threatening beyond stage 3-- all subjects in good health, no current data on patients with prior health conditions.
Infection must be cured upon patient request or if patient's health/safety is in jeopardy.
Current Priorities:
1. Study anatomy/physiology of parasite crab, determine source of infection.
2. Formulate possible cure/preventative vaccine.
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How does the commercial go? Double your fun and double your pleasure? Something like that? Hope everybody's okay.
In other news, funny how an evening can be entirely worth the hangover you get afterward, sí?
[Notes on Parasite Crab Infection]
Data Collected by L. Sera, R. Chambers, F. Madaraki
(as compiled by L. Sera)
The infection is caused by a neurotoxin or a viral compound in the venom of a crab bite. Onset of stage 1 symptoms occurs within several hours of infection, with pain and numbness present immediately upon injury.
So far, the infection seems to have four known stages of symptoms. Data is unfortunately imperfect and may not be flawless, as notes come from several different subjects. Notes will be provided for known symptoms/data only and no conclusions can be drawn at the moment.
Subjects:
DATA A: Chambers, Rebecca
21 / Female / AB
Notes taken by Chambers throughout Stage 1-3 of infection.
DATA B: Kennedy, Leon
28 / Male / A
Notes taken from blood sample administered by L. Sera in Stage 1.
DATA C: Madaraki, Fran
?? / Female / ??
Notes taken by Madaraki throughout Stage 1-3 of infection; Stage 4 notes taken by L. Sera based on tissue sample from infection site.
NOTE: The data for Madaraki is somewhat questionable, as there is is extremely unusual physiological... everything for her. Further study req'd?
Stage 1
Duration: 1-4 days after infection
Symptoms: Weakness, tiredness, fatigue-- by day 3 a cough develops and fever/aches may be present.
Stage 2
Duration: 5 to 12 days after infection
Symptoms: Fatigue, cough and fever continue and worsen-- appetite lessens and respiratory problems occur near the end of the second week.
Stage 3
Duration: 13 to 21 days after infection
Symptoms: All symptoms worsen-- weight loss occurs and subject is weak. Coughing slowly worsens and blood is present in sputum.
Stage 4
Duration: 22 days to...?
Symptoms: Coughing and breathing difficulties worsen. Fatigue makes movement difficult, mild delirium may be present.
Further study required re: stage 4 infection, any possible stages after. Unfortunately, caution must be taken: Infection appears to be life-threatening beyond stage 3-- all subjects in good health, no current data on patients with prior health conditions.
Infection must be cured upon patient request or if patient's health/safety is in jeopardy.
Current Priorities:
1. Study anatomy/physiology of parasite crab, determine source of infection.
2. Formulate possible cure/preventative vaccine.
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How does the commercial go? Double your fun and double your pleasure? Something like that? Hope everybody's okay.
In other news, funny how an evening can be entirely worth the hangover you get afterward, sí?
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Date: 2009-02-11 07:15 pm (UTC)I might recommend you talk to Robert Neville about this; he mentioned at the party that he's a virologist. I can't say I would be much help, unfortunately; I'm better at telling you the carbon dating of a piece of rock or how long it took the Chinese to invent firecrackers.
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Date: 2009-02-11 07:24 pm (UTC)As far as further prospects... I'm really more of a biologist than a doctor, so I'm planning on doing a detailed look at the crabs to figure out where this comes from.
Problem is, it's not ethical to let the infected people get worse just so we can look at it.
no subject
Date: 2009-02-11 09:16 pm (UTC)Yee-ah...I can't imagine you'd have too many volunteers for that. At least you respect ethics; I knew a few scientists who probably wouldn't have been opposed to that. Let's not go there.
no subject
Date: 2009-02-12 06:48 am (UTC)[Private to Team Science, Fran Madaraki, Rebecca Chambers; difficult to hack]
Date: 2009-02-11 07:25 pm (UTC)...Y'know, it occurs to me that we ought to try gettin' us another live crab for study. Know anyone who'd be up for it?
no subject
Date: 2009-02-11 07:39 pm (UTC)...Not me. I can shoot if my life depends on it but I'm not really the action type, you know?
no subject
Date: 2009-02-11 07:46 pm (UTC)[Private to Team Science, Fran Madaraki, Rebecca Chambers; difficult to hack]
Date: 2009-02-11 08:07 pm (UTC)I do that kind of thing all the time.
[Private to Team Science, Fran Madaraki, Rebecca Chambers; difficult to hack]
Date: 2009-02-11 08:32 pm (UTC)We're gettin' to be a good team, Neville.
[Private to Team Science, Fran Madaraki, Rebecca Chambers; difficult to hack]
Date: 2009-02-11 08:33 pm (UTC)Though, it's not as if anybody else around here's gonna go out and catch one.
[Private to Team Science, Fran Madaraki, Rebecca Chambers; difficult to hack]
Date: 2009-02-11 08:09 pm (UTC)We can work with that. Let's get together some time, I'd like to have a look at your samples. There's a few tests we can do to see if it's a virus. Then at least we'll know what we're up against.
no subject
Date: 2009-02-11 08:12 pm (UTC)You're... you were at the bar that day, weren't you? You some kind of biologist, sí?
no subject
Date: 2009-02-11 08:22 pm (UTC)I was neck-deep in an epidemic before I was brought here, so I've got a little experience with this sort of thing. I can't tell you how close to dead your Dr. Madaraki was without a little more detail, but if she was as bad as she seemed, then a month is probably as far as we want to assume, since we've got the means to cure it.
The nature of the illness might tell us something about the monsters themselves.
no subject
Date: 2009-02-11 08:27 pm (UTC)An epidemic, eh? Join the club, amigo. I did extensive, ah... work with the Las Plagas parasites before I... got here. I managed to make a suppressant then, but medicine isn't really my specialty, so I was planning on studying the crabs themselves for my next priority.
I would have included more about Dr. Madaraki, but. Well. She's a little strange and I can't tell what was infection and what was normal for her.
no subject
Date: 2009-02-11 08:36 pm (UTC)Never heard of it, but then I never heard of a lot of shit before I got here. Just so long as whatever it is doesn't start leaping from person to person, we've got a window of study here.
As for crabs, I think I can probably get us a live one...but we'd need somewhere to keep it, and I'd need some more information on them, if you got it. We don't know enough about them to keep one tranqued reliably...and I don't know enough about their physiology to built a containment system.
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Date: 2009-02-11 08:42 pm (UTC)The crab infection doesn't seem to be contagious. And if you need some work done on the little bastards, then I'm your man. I've dissected a few dead ones, so you can have a look at those notes, and if we ever wrangle another live one I can definitely be of service.
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Date: 2009-02-11 08:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-12 04:35 am (UTC)8D you just got hacked (Private to Luis)
Date: 2009-02-11 08:18 pm (UTC)Do you really believe you can create a vaccine to heal this infection? I do not doubt that with the multitude of knowledge and miracles of science it could be possible... But entirely how probable is it?
(Private to Sexy Blonde)
Date: 2009-02-11 08:20 pm (UTC)Goddammit, I need to fix that thing...Well I don't like to brag, but I've come up with something similar before for a different kind of infection. It's in the cards.
How in the cards would a date with you be, though?
(Private to jackass)
Date: 2009-02-11 08:28 pm (UTC)Keep dealing the cards and we'll see.
(Private to Gorgeous)
Date: 2009-02-11 08:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-11 11:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-12 04:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-13 07:11 am (UTC)And you've got your priorities straight, at that. Studying them with the aim of developing a vaccine is certainly paramount.... But, yes, an excellent compilation of data there. I do love to see a good compilation of data.