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[whattheytellyou]

[All business today:]

Everyone who came in contact with the animals -

[Someone is NOT saying "dinosaurs".]- should report to the infirmary. I've already let the staff know what to look for

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[young_idealist]

Can you get sick from eating roasted flying dinosaur? I'd think Dracula wouldn't be ill from their blood; so many things don't affect him at all.

[whattheytellyou]

I don't think DX is transmissible to humans, and so long as you didn't eat the brain or spinal column, you're probably all right, anyway.

All the same, Armand, go to the infirmary and let the doctors look you over.

[young_idealist]

It was an arm wing... thing.

...

I'll go.

[whattheytellyou]

You should be all right. Better safe than sorry, right?

[thegooddrjones]

We're on it. So far we haven't found any signs of infection.

[whattheytellyou]

Thank god. Just what we need, right? An outbreak of Barge Spongiform Encephalopathy.

[ifightfor]

Define "spongiform encephalopathy".

[For some reason this sounds even more horrible to Rinzler than usual.]

[whattheytellyou]

It's a prion disease. The simplest form of infectious agent. Misfolded proteins form polymer chains in the brain, eventually causing holes in the cortex.

Mad cow disease, if you want to look it up in the library.

[gingerspeedster]

I'm doing pretty good. How're you?

[whattheytellyou]

I'll be fine.

[gingerspeedster]

I notice you said you'll be fine. Not you are fine.

[whattheytellyou]

I'll be fine once I've had some time to sleep and collect myself. My inmate has had a rough couple of weeks, and I haven't been taking care of myself like I should -

And then we get dropped in a port that hits a little too close to home.

So I'll be fine. Eventually.

[veni_vidi_valui]

If I must.