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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Game Control" data-source="post: 157617" data-attributes="member: 4033">Lana leads you on a tour of the facility, starting with the tent area; Dozens of very large tents containing roughly 50 patients each.  They have bunks and very basics accommodation.  A few doctors wearing the customary white clothing are in sight. -''Yeah, we all live on site.  Many members of the staff are infected with the new TB strain in a latent state.  By the time we realized there was a new strain, it was already too late.  Of course, as long as we stay healthy, we are reasonably safe.  The problem of these people (she indicates the legion of patients) is that they aren't healthy.  AIDS in a lot of case but also simply dirt poor living conditions.  There isn't much we can do but isolate those who are identified as active carriers of the antibiotic resistant strain.  These are the tents assigned for those cases.  As you can see, they cover half the camp.The strain isn't really 100% resistant to everything, that's just an exaggeration.  But it's pretty damn tough.  It's resistant to all commonly used antibiotics and while we have a few drugs that work, none are efficient.  We need very strong dosage and the secondary effects are sometime just as dangerous as the disease for some patient.  Not to mention that we simply don't have enough of those drugs that do work.  Furthermore, some people on our research staff are saying that the TB mutates quickly and easily develops new resistance that it didn't have just a few months ago.  To put it bluntly, the situation is bad.''She points toward an isolated building that is clearly more modern than the others.  It is only one story high and while built with bricks like most other cheap building, it has a modern thermal pump.That's our lab.  It's a restricted area given that we're running tests on the latest TB strain.  Frankly, we shouldn't have to do this ourselves.  It drains most of the resources of our lab which should be used simply to run standard analysis on our patients.  But for the moment there is so few people taking TB seriously that we have to contribute.  Our staff searches for the best way to deal with the disease. Reacting to Luddite's request to run some interview. -''Ok, but you have to make it snappy.  We are understaffed these days and no one can afford to do some lengthy interviews during their watch.  Of course, perhaps some of our staff will accept to talk to you while off-duty.  That way you have plenty of time to discuss the situation.  Don't insist if they decline, though.  Some people on our staff especially value their free time. [OOC: 16 + 7 sense motive; there is a hint of disgust in that last sentence.Beaujolais and Gournay were on a first name basis in the e-mail.  They didn't refer to their time in Paris as it seems  they get together on a yearly basis and hardly need to delve so far in the past to find conversation subjects.  Most recently they spent a week in Atlantic City.]</blockquote>

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