Variola vera Page #4

Our tourist season is gone to hell. Italian and Spanish papers

are full of variola and you play conspiracy. Are you stupid?

Situation was like that. I've just been

to quarantines Centar and Avala...

- You want to say that you were with variola patients?

- Yes. An hour ago. - Today?

- Now? - Yes. And I can tell you that disease is

spreading on several locations, everywhere Rejepi was...

Lets make a deal. I'll get you out from this

situation, but you must make some effort...

- What?

- You'll get her out of there any way you know!

Television report about vaccination.

Mile, are you there?

Oh dear God, why don't you turn on heating?

It's cold even here...

Light ball broke...

Mile...

Don't touch him!

Let him!

- What are you looking for?

Some tranquilizers. I haven't slept whole night.

I don't have that...

They are not normal... They sole everything...

Can I put this here?

- You can't. - Just until I find

safer place. Day or two.

- You can't an that is it.

- Put that down!

- Haven't you heard me?

- Don't do that!

- Stop, don't do that. Don't Erotica?

- What? What Erotica?!

Don't come near me!

I can't take it anymore!

- Who is Dr. Uskokovic?

- It's me.

They sent you some things from home.

Take it.

There is a letter in there.

Read it carefully.

His skin is completely carbonized.

I have to tell you something.

We don't know well each other.

I'm afraid that I'm going to be misunderstood.

You could notice that my attitude

about everything never was under question mark.

I was the last one to take vaccine.

I fought as much as I could.

But I'm broken since that

happen to Grujic.

I don't know if you can understand that.

Everything is gone...faith...motives...

everything I taught my students...

I have to quit. I have to leave.

I can't take it anymore.

Colleague, I'll speak freely. By the things

I have seen in Africa, mortality is about 60%.

Oh, you can't see the light because of me?

There is something interesting.

All cases with deadly ending here...

were the cases with patients that were

taking drugs that reduces immunity...

or with people that were never vaccinated.

You have vaccine scar and they gives us some hope.

If you manage to survive next faze of disease,

chances for surviving are very good.

Do you want to bet?

I'm in with a bottle of Chivas whiskey

from 1963.

That young girl doesn't allow entrance.

Be prepared tomorrow.

Dr, please hear me.

Look at me. I'm not a patient...

He is reading poetry

Stop it, please.

I hate poetry.

I don't like it either.

I'm more interested in SF and horror.

You know what i decided? I'm gathering inspiration

for my first novel, medical SF, In the Claws of Disease.

- Something between Camus and Isaac Asimov.

- Stop for once!

Listen to me...

- I'm getting out of here.

- How?

Just like that.

Forever!

Why are you thinking about

death when I'm here with you?

I'm going out! Not dying!

Running away! Understand?

Dr. tell him to go.

(Child is calling mother.)

- To who?

- That's Zagas son, he is yelling for an hour.

- Zaga? Is that nurse who had break down?

- She doesn't want to see anyone, eve her son...

Give this to her.

Dr. I'm not nurse or Dr. but if

you need help upstairs, I can do anything.

Of course we need help.

Thank you very much.

- They came for Mile. - Who is Mile?

- Mile the stoker.

Oh, my God.

You can' imagine hi suffering.

I realize what Kenigsmar thought when he said that

our occupation is bunch of half-lies and ignorance.

And he said that...

My left hand is warm, and right one is like stone.

Isn't it?

What is it?

Dushko!

- What is it?

- It's heart! Quickly!

- Adrenalin! - Where is it?

- Upstairs! Quickly!

- Wow, how big space it is in here...

- Out!!!

- Mask, quickly! - What? - That green thing, quickly!

- Here it is.

- On 3, press it on 3! - Where? - There! - Ok.

Needle, quickly, needle!

Here it is. Come on, come on...

It works, Just a little more, come on!

You did it!

- Aren't you out?

- Someone needed more to get out.

- Who is it? - Tell them that Dr Markovic

had heart attack and that she is in ambulance.

Doctor, what shell I do?

Wait for me here.

- Who turned off the lights?

- It was me, Doctor. Bora.

You don't need it.

- What are you doing here?

- I'm taking care of you.

- You?

- I've got bored down there so I volunteered.

Doctor!

You are crazy gonorrhea bastard!

- How are you?

- And you?

It itches like hell.

- Find that vampire and tell him to bring the whiskey.

- Don't ask me twice.

I look very nice, don't I?

Looks were never your main feature.

Fly...

Spring is coming.

- Professor, Grujic wants to see you.

- What are you trying to say?

He wanted to eat, but I don't know

can he, because of his internal organs.

Are you aware what you are saying?

- Bookman, catch!

- Where did you find this?

This one is on Dr. Grujic.

What is it kittens?

No f***ing without doping?

Go to hell!

You silly fool...

I think that we closed first round.

For 17 days there weren't new cases...

...and for four days no one died.

Some of the patients started to lose blisters.

We have to wait 21st day. If there were new cases,

that would mean that the second round of disease started.

- It looks like epidemic stopped.

- Yes, it looks like that.

Epidemic stops as it starts, without reasons

and without logic.

Wait. That means that in three days

everything will be over?

- That's right.

Does it means that danger is over?

Theoretically:
No.

Practically:
Yes.

- Have you seen Dushko?

- The blond one? He is on the roof. Tanning.

I have something nice to tell you.

Hey!

Death is as natural as life is.

It's all about + and -.

One is for life, other for death.

Cause of death in case of variola is heavy intoxication

and massive internal bleeding from hemorrhage diathesis.

Couldnt this be from thrombosis?

One thin is sure.

It is not variola vera.

- What is cause of death?

- I don't know.

- I thought... Well that's rubbish.

- What?

I thought that variola changed...That variola

became something else, as soon as we won.

Colleague, I think that autopsy clearly shows that cause of

death was cerebral hemorrhage. Do you agree?

You can write anything you want.

This man didn't die because of variola.

Dr. Uskokovic, when we get out from here I'll

take you to dinner in Writers club.

You survived variola.

You have scars.

- We have to inform people that everything is over.

- But why did you...?

Why were you wearing that suite?

You are immune.

Suit was because of psychological effect.

Not for you, but for those outside.

Before we start to answer questions, allow me to read

you letter we just received from World Health Organization.

Dear friends, I'm honored to inform you

that we gave you golden olive branch...

...award we give every year for exceptional successes

in fighting quarantine diseases.

Your unselfish work stopped spreading

terrible disease on the very edge of Europe.

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