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...and they may request an autopsy.

Or if you wish, we can order one.

But I can't guarantee|it's gonna tell you any more than I can.

I mean, my best guess is that this|was either meningitis or encephalitis...

...and with encephalitis,|we're in the dark a lot of the time.

If it was summer, I might say a bug bite,|you know, West Nile.

- I don't know...|- Herpes can cause encephalitis.

She didn't have herpes.

- What are you talking about?|- Okay.

What happened to her?

- What happened to her?|- Okay, okay.

Mr. Emhoff, there are grief counselors...

...who are very helpful|with this sort of passing, okay?

You might find some resolution there.

Now, I am sorry.

Hello?

Hang up the phone and call 911 right now.|Right now. 911.

He said he had a headache,|so I put him to bed.

I don't think he's breathing.

Clark. Clark.

Oh, my God, is he dead?

What we are hearing from|Beijing is that the outbreak is contained...

...to the Chrysanthemum complex|in Hong Kong.

Two deaths and 10 suspected cases.

How are we defining "contained?"

They're using the same protocols|established for SARS.

They're quarantining the complex|and screening for symptoms.

Kowloon is the most densely|populated area in the world...

...and Hong Kong is a harbor.

It's going to spread.

Hong Kong is sending us blood samples.

We're also looking at samples|from London.

One at a hotel,|the other at a health club.

Five dead, encephalitis.

And there's the man on the bus in Tokyo.

- Three dead in that cluster.|- Any of them travel to China or London?

We're checking.

Mr. Neal, I want you to stay with me here.

Can you hear me?|Have you had seizures before? Mr. Neal?

- I want you to open your eyes if you can.|- He's breathing, right?

I couldn't wake him.|I got home, I couldn't wake him.

We both woke up sick this morning.

Watch your head.

Well, the sulci are obliterated.|Let's look at the base.

Oh, my God.

You want me to take a sample, or?

I want you to move away from the table.

- Should I call someone, or?|- Call everyone.

Well, these things happen|up there from time to time.

Meningitis in a college dorm|after a swim meet...

...or West Nile in some summer camp|near a lake.

I was reading that last summer they had|an outbreak of enterovirus encephalitis.

A hundred and three cases,|mainly children.

Well, it's probably too cold up there|for that right now.

As of last night,|there were five deaths and 32 cases.

There's a cluster|in an elementary school.

That's the kind of thing|you have to be prepared for.

It's gonna be all over the news.

What's your single overriding|communications objective?

We're isolating the sick and quarantining|those who we believe were exposed.

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