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didn’t have the capability to keep his temperature from falling. Instead, a cold wind of fear took over, making him speechless and breathless at the same time.
    ‘This can’t be happening,’ he exclaimed.
    He turned to look at his wife, who seemed to be having a hard time closing her mouth.
    ‘How could they allow something like this to happen?’ he said to Anne. She didn’t reply. ‘Anne!’
    ‘Stewy. Is it time to start worrying?’
    Stewart almost cackled at the oddness of the question. After all, worry was something he’d felt a long time ago before there was really a cause for concern. Worry was what had kept him home from work, what had prompted the state of panic Anne knew he was in.
    ‘No, Anne. Not at all. We’ll be safe. We’re safe right where we are. They like to over-exaggerate the headlines. It makes it hard for us to switch the channel.’ He didn’t believe a word he was saying. But what was he supposed to tell her? All the things he’d been spewing in the past few months about the potential of the virus weren't fact. They were paranoia. However, the idea that a single passenger had infected almost everyone else on an airplane was fact. It was a fact that no matter how he tried to flip it; no matter how he tried to play it down, it was simply the scariest news they could have heard.
    Before Stewart could offer even more consolation, Anne stopped him in his tracks. ‘Shh. I wanna hear this, Stewy.’
    Stewart drew back and positioned himself closely to his wife. He thought about draping his arm over her shoulder but refrained from doing so in the fear that she’d sense the terror trembling through his entire body. The minute Stewart saw the look on the reporter’s face, his heart sunk even deeper into his chest. When she started to speak, he was sure it had stopped pounding.
     
    ‘The World Health Organization is calling for the passengers who took flight number SA184 from Liberia to Fort Lauderdale on September the 3 rd , to get in contact with the necessary authorities. Reports have come in that a pregnant passenger, confirmed to be infected with the Ebola Virus Disease, may have infected a large number of the plane’s passengers as well as flight attendants.
    Why was the infected passenger allowed on the airplane? How many people came in contact with the passenger? These are just a few of the questions citizens are demanding answers to. Officials from Liberia stated that the infected passenger did not reveal that she had been in contact with the virus, and had not shown symptoms prior to entering the airplane. However, things took a turn for the worst when a mere two hours after the flight had left Liberia, her condition deteriorated. Amongst these symptoms were vomiting which is believed to be the main source of bodily fluid the passengers came in contact with.
    A flight attendant from the airline was quoted saying, ‘she was pregnant and so it wasn’t the strangest thing for her to be throwing up. I’ve been working as a flight attendant for over five years and it’s not the first time that I’ve come across an incident like this. My coworkers and I just tried to get the aisle and the bathroom cleaned up as much as possible and a couple of passengers pitched in to help. The last thing on my mind was Ebola. I mean, she was pregnant. Pregnant women throw up. Unfortunately, unlike the other cases this flight attendant had to deal with, these symptoms weren’t due to pregnancy...’
     
    Stewart knew Anne had heard enough when she grabbed the remote from the television stand and forcefully clicked the Off button.
    ‘It’s okay, Anne.’ Stewart rested a hand on his wife’s shoulder.
    Anne looked at her husband with tears welling in her eyes. ‘As though thinking my coworker was infected wasn’t enough. Now we’ve got to deal with this. Except there’s no happy ending here. This lady doesn’t have the flu and her poor baby… What’s going to happen? Oh gosh, all those people