Chapter 2

She awoke with a start for the second time running although this time her dream had centred on the Athosian people all dying of the flu and she unable to save them. Resolving to get to the bottom of this she started her day with a speech prepared and a barrage of tests to be run on all those involved in this little outbreak. Oh… she knew it would not be so easy but at the end of the day in medical matters she could and would overrule anything the idiot military would throw her way in terms of denying consent. Strong CMO Jennifer was about today, well at least for now she was.

First on the agenda was to check on John and Ronon, next to speak with Woolsey and then tests on Rodney and Teyla, then the sick ones. As well as preparing a strong set of words for the Satedan who had lied to her the previous night, flustered though she was it had only taken her minutes to work out that he had in fact had a fever and headache last night, the tell-tale signs of fever and photophobia were present for her to see.

This time she started with seeing Ronon first, as she had to establish a baseline for how he was actually feeling. Knowing the opposition she would face she simply let her into his room and froze, he was still in bed, writhing around in obvious discomfort and groaning. On initial assessment she could clearly see he was sweating copiously, the window was open so he was probably hot, and in some pain as she was not used to him voicing any pain even if he was still asleep. She woke him up, working through his confusion she got him some water and measured his temperature, 40.3®C, adding paracetamol and ibuprofen to bring the fever down. She tried to explain to him that his symptoms were controllable. She realised he was not going to take much in at the moment and so after drawing some blood she promised to return, taking with her the promise that he would keep drinking the water that she left.

Next she went to John whom was in a similar state to Ronan who himself admitted he was getting worse. Leaving him with the same advice and treatment she went to the infirmary to run tests on the blood. As she had thought the strain was viral in nature and seemed to exhibit flu like symptoms, so she knew they would be ok with some TLC. She did know that quarantine would be necessary and resolved to move both men into a side room in the infirmary and set about Okaying it all with Woolsey. Radioing Teyla to come down the infirmary she checked on Ronon and Sheppard via radio and sent Nadia to check on them physically as she was always sceptical as to what they admitted to.

Teyla and Rodney came to the infirmary with various forms of asking and allowed the blood to be taken although they were not symptomatic. She questioned Teyla and was told she had had something similar when she was a child and that this was a fairly prolific illness within the Pegasus galaxy. This helped reassure Jennifer to a certain degree however she could clearly see that in the meantime she would have two very miserable military men under her charge. She asked Teyla and Rodney to check in with her regularly to ensure they continued to be unaffected and again went to check on her patients.