Helen was in her office it was getting close to dinner time. She hadn't eaten much. She had spent most of the day on the phone white the White House and the Governors of Minnesota and North Dakota. The Red River flooding had caused the habit of some abnormal to be underwater. They needed help, moving or with temporary housing them until the water receded. The 3 cups of tea she had, just was not enough.
Helen was closing down her computer. She needed to check that Ashley and Henry were finish their homework. Just before she got up the phone rang again. Helen let out a sigh, "Hello." The voice on the other end was a friend. One she hadn't heard from since they last meet at a convention on disease, "Helen Magnus it's Janet Fraiser." "Janet, it's lovely to hear a friendly voice." "Rough day?" Janet asked, as she let out a long sigh. "Absolutely, but you sound like your still having one." "Yes, I've got a problem. The first part is that it's classified and the second part is, it's high contagious."
Helen leaned back in her chair, "Well, do tell me what you can. Maybe I can help, or direct you to someone who can." Janet told Helen how all the infected were behaving like primitives. She had calls into all the specialist in the Air force. But now she just had one of the few females on base had caught it.
"It's Samantha isn't it? Wait I know you can't tell me." Helen said, feeling even more frustrated. "I'm sorry Helen, I'm working with one arm behind my back. The only reason I was allowed to contact you. Was because of your involvement in the dig that found the Gate."
There was a long pause, "There was one case my father worked on in the Andes. A group of abnormal on one side of the mountain had more advanced eye sight then the group on the other. It turned out to be something in the local vegetation. The group with the poorer eye sight didn't have access to that food. Perhaps that or something else environmental." "Well I can't go scanning a whole-" Janet cut herself off. "The whole area, this happened in." Helen smiled to herself, "Yes of course.