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"I'd guess that - a long, long time ago, in dath ilan - we figured out how to identify everyone with a disease like that, all at once, in one giant sweep through the population, and we isolated all of them until they got better or died, plus a while longer to be sure, and then the disease didn't exist anymore."

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"I'd guess that - a long, long time ago, in dath ilan - we figured out how to identify everyone with a disease like that, all at once, in one giant sweep through the population, and we isolated all of them until they got better or died, plus a while longer to be sure, and then the disease didn't exist anymore."

(The concept that you can have a contagious disease forever without it either getting better, or getting worse until it kills you, has not particularly occurred to Keltham; why would the replication rate in the face of immune counterattack be exactly 1, rather than exploding or vanishing?)

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"I'd guess that - a long, long time ago, in dath ilan - we figured out how to identify everyone with a disease like that, all at once, in one giant sweep through the population, and we isolated all of them until they got better or died, plus a while longer to be sure, and then the disease didn't exist anymore."

(The concept that you can have a contagious disease forever without it either getting better enough not to be contagious, or getting worse until it kills you, has not particularly occurred to Keltham; why would the replication rate in the face of immune counterattack be exactly 1, rather than exploding or vanishing?)

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"I'd guess that - a long, long time ago, in dath ilan - we figured out how to identify everyone with a disease like that, all at once, in one giant sweep through the population, and we isolated all of them until they got better or died, plus a while longer to be sure, and then the disease didn't exist anymore."

(The concept that you can have a contagious disease forever, without it either getting better enough not to be contagious, or getting worse until it kills you, has not particularly occurred to Keltham; why would the replication rate in the face of immune counterattack be exactly 1, rather than exploding or vanishing?)