the outer door before the sensors showed them to be clean of contaminant, the incinerator could either automatically or manually be activated to reduce that entire section and anyone in it to a pile of ash in seconds.
As soon as the helicopter landed at the field center a tanker truck full of NucleoClean decontamination spray moved into position alongside the landing pad and crews in full contamination gear started stretching hoses out to begin spraying off the helicopter and personnel. Once each team member and their passenger had been sprayed they were admitted one at a time into the decontamination section while technicians on the outside of the section monitored the process and measured the air samples being tested as they each went through the process. Everyone entering the decontamination area was required to strip totally naked after receiving an initial blast of decontamination spray, modesty was a small price to pay to ensure containment of any potentially dangerous microbes they may be carrying. One by one the team members were cleared to exit the area after air quality testing found nothing hazardous. When it came time for the teen girl to go through the process she started to panic as soon as she was helped inside the inner room of the tube. They finally had to give her a mild sedative and send a fully suited technician through the process with her to keep her under control long enough to determine that she was clean of any contaminant. After finishing the screening process she was covered in a robe and then bound to a gurney and wheeled into the nearby level three medical laboratory. She would be fully examined from head to toe for any obvious physical injuries while at the same time samples of her blood, hair, urine and saliva would be obtained and run through a complex battery of tests to locate and isolate any infectious agent she may have been exposed to or might be carrying.
The air samples and corpse were moved directly into the level five containment center without undergoing any prior decontamination process so they could be analyzed in their natural state. The co ntainers holding the air samples were plugged directly into a battery of machines that would start an automatic analysis of each sample under the watchful eyes of two scientists. While the air was being studied, the body was moved onto a bare metal examination table, there it would be examined in depth with careful notations made of observations over the external parts of the body before it was autopsied and internal samples obtained for study. All of the activities in the different labs were being streamed via live video to several different locations throughout the United States. The crisis center in Washington, DC was charged with coordinating the efforts between the field center and the different laboratories that were monitoring the activities there. As computerized data was obtained, it was instantly made available to the main CDC office in Atlanta, Georgia were even more laboratory technicians were ready to start studying the information and working on figuring out what they were dealing with and what might be their best alternative for a cure.
Chapter 5
He was up at least fifteen minutes before the 6am alarm buzzed, a habit from military life that he doubted he would kick anytime soon. Even on days when he tried his hardest to sleep late, his body just wouldn't allow it, to many years of being up before the crack of dawn to get in at least an hour of physical training before even considering something for breakfast. His interview wasn't until 10am this morning giving him several hours to kill in the meantime. He hoped that the later interview meant that there were other applicants before him and not that this was one of those lazy offices were people just didn't like to do things first thing in the morning. Idle time was not a concept he was used to, if he didn't
As soon as the helicopter landed at the field center a tanker truck full of NucleoClean decontamination spray moved into position alongside the landing pad and crews in full contamination gear started stretching hoses out to begin spraying off the helicopter and personnel. Once each team member and their passenger had been sprayed they were admitted one at a time into the decontamination section while technicians on the outside of the section monitored the process and measured the air samples being tested as they each went through the process. Everyone entering the decontamination area was required to strip totally naked after receiving an initial blast of decontamination spray, modesty was a small price to pay to ensure containment of any potentially dangerous microbes they may be carrying. One by one the team members were cleared to exit the area after air quality testing found nothing hazardous. When it came time for the teen girl to go through the process she started to panic as soon as she was helped inside the inner room of the tube. They finally had to give her a mild sedative and send a fully suited technician through the process with her to keep her under control long enough to determine that she was clean of any contaminant. After finishing the screening process she was covered in a robe and then bound to a gurney and wheeled into the nearby level three medical laboratory. She would be fully examined from head to toe for any obvious physical injuries while at the same time samples of her blood, hair, urine and saliva would be obtained and run through a complex battery of tests to locate and isolate any infectious agent she may have been exposed to or might be carrying.
The air samples and corpse were moved directly into the level five containment center without undergoing any prior decontamination process so they could be analyzed in their natural state. The co ntainers holding the air samples were plugged directly into a battery of machines that would start an automatic analysis of each sample under the watchful eyes of two scientists. While the air was being studied, the body was moved onto a bare metal examination table, there it would be examined in depth with careful notations made of observations over the external parts of the body before it was autopsied and internal samples obtained for study. All of the activities in the different labs were being streamed via live video to several different locations throughout the United States. The crisis center in Washington, DC was charged with coordinating the efforts between the field center and the different laboratories that were monitoring the activities there. As computerized data was obtained, it was instantly made available to the main CDC office in Atlanta, Georgia were even more laboratory technicians were ready to start studying the information and working on figuring out what they were dealing with and what might be their best alternative for a cure.
Chapter 5
He was up at least fifteen minutes before the 6am alarm buzzed, a habit from military life that he doubted he would kick anytime soon. Even on days when he tried his hardest to sleep late, his body just wouldn't allow it, to many years of being up before the crack of dawn to get in at least an hour of physical training before even considering something for breakfast. His interview wasn't until 10am this morning giving him several hours to kill in the meantime. He hoped that the later interview meant that there were other applicants before him and not that this was one of those lazy offices were people just didn't like to do things first thing in the morning. Idle time was not a concept he was used to, if he didn't
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