The Andromeda Strain: Summary

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to search for Scoop VII.
When the two men sent neared Piedmont they noticed vultures circling the
town, watching, waiting. At their last check point there was only a scream
and static as the virus took two more lives.

Hours later a military helicopter with Jeremy Stone and Charles Burton took
off from Vandenberg Air Force Base. It was headed for Piedmont, Arizona.
They were going there to recover a sample of the virus and to search for
the living man they had seen in the flyby photos. Upon arriving they
search through the houses until they found Scoop VII. It had been pried
open by the town's doctor. They quickly slipped it in to a bag, hoping the
virus was still intact. As they walked around, they observed hundreds of
strange forms of suicide and death. Some people hung, drown, shot, and lit
themselves on fire, while others just laid there with a look of surprise on
their face. Stone and Burton carefully took a scalpel, while being careful
not to cut their airtight suits. ...

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a certain blood pH level, and it
would be mutated by an atomic detonation. With this new information they
understood why the infant and old man were spared. The old man's blood pH
was too acidic since he used a bottle of Advil a day, while the baby's pH
was to low since it never stopped crying.

Meanwhile, near Piedmont a military plane crashed. The pilot's last words
were, "Everything is just melting." The cause of the crash was Andromeda.
The Andromeda virus had mutated causing it to disintegrate plastics instead
of clot blood. This amazing discovery was sent to Wildfire but they did
not respond to the message. The message was never received since the
teletype machine it had been ...

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