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...disease had apparently failed to spread beyond the small family cluster. (Somsak's wife and six-year-old son were both quarantined in a provincial hospital with bird-flu symptoms, and his son has recovered.) The human-to-human transmission "is a nonsustained, inefficient, dead-end street," says Dr. Klaus Stohr, head of the WHO's influenza team. By the weekend, scientists at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were still studying the viral samples, trying to determine whether the virus had mutated significantly?or worse, reassorted with a human flu. The latter would be alarming, notes...
...morning, I attempt to slip out before Klaus’ awakening, but he catches me at it. Breakfast? Unfortunately I need to make a train. No talk of motorbikes, but a hurt Klaus herds me to his car. Ever hospitable, he drives me to the train station on an empty stomach...
What if we aren’t heading towards the station after all? Klaus’ silence brings on a moment of terror. But soon we’re there. Then guilt. Why was I still suspicious? I buy the train ticket; Klaus disappears. Searching everywhere, I notice the car is gone, too. He must not like good-byes, but I had wanted to thank him properly...
Admitting I need sleep, I sweeten the assertion with a promise. One day I will drive all along the Marseilles seafront in search of a German pub. If I find it, I’ll know Klaus was successful. Before falling asleep, I put my backpack against the door. It’s still uncomfortable to be in the house of a stranger who lives alone. A stranger who, for unclear reasons, has taken in a random person from the street...
...train leaves. My conscience tells me that I haven’t treated him well, running off as soon as I could. He had been so uniquely open and generous—but I am unused to kindness from a stranger, and as for Klaus, I think all he needed was someone who would listen for a night...