January, 2023
Chapter 62 Ethnic
cleanser (5)
Female
doctor Shalom heard a strange rumor that a number of Palestinian girls and
women living in N City had developed a fever. However, the fever seemed to
subside after a few days. There was a group vaccination shortly before the
fever. The fever seemed to be the side effect of vaccination. In the normal
case, it would not raise the doubts medically.
But
she felt something strange. One reason was that mass vaccination was carried
out under the jurisdiction of the Israeli military hospital rather than public
health agencies. Second, post-vaccination fever was limited to Palestinian
girls and adult women.
She
was surprised to find that most of the adult women were under the age of 50,
and that elderly women were excluded. She asked her father just to be sure,
because the military hospital was in charge of that job. Shy-Rock said that he
had long since left the military service and that he knew nothing about medical
matters. He replied her unpleasantly.
She
already knew that. Her father had consulted with the Surgeon General at his residence,
and Dr. Girgo, who was in the same hospital with her, visited her father immediately
after the Surgeon General. Her sister Anat, who loved gossip very much, had
told her about it spontaneously. Shalom had an instinct that there should be plot
or something. She would only believe what she had confirmed for herself. That was
her way of life as a scientist.
Shalom
borrowed a small office at a clinic of her friend in N City. She spent her
spare time from routine work to examine patients and conduct pathological
examinations. Doctor Girgo, who worked at the same hospital, heard rumors about
her work and began to probe it. She ignored it and went on to find the truth.
One
day, a Palestinian girl came to the clinic with her mother. It was a high fever
until a few days ago, but now it has subsided a little. She came to see a
doctor because she had persistent pain in her lower abdomen. Shalom performed a
routine medical interview, a physical examination including a pulse, and also
collected her blood and uterine cells.
That night, Shalom performed microscopy and genetic testing on cells from the girl. She was shocked by the microscopy test.
Shalom
hastily opened the medical reports in her hand to confirm the name of the
patient.
Her
name was "Lulu".
(End
of Part II, Continued to Part III)
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Areha
Kazuya
(From
an ordinary citizen in the cloud)
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