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Bakamono · (This post was last modified: 01-18-2011, 08:51 PM by Bakamono.)

The transport approached cutting a smooth, curved line around the beautiful blue of Planet Hiran; a Line to the Hawaii was opened and the transport crew introduced themselves. 'Hawaii docking control, This is Cryer Gold fourteen: we have two isolation crews and a Co-ordinator acting under a prevention and control of disease legislation. Please begin mooring procedures'¦'
The airlock door slowly opened, guards flanking Co-ordinator quickly snapped to attention, bracing their rifles, as the doctor languidly raised a open hand in ease 'Stand down men; no need for this to get messy: these are our hosts ' the esteemed and rugged medics I presume'¦' he let the query hang for a moment before clicking his fingers: summoning a beautiful, skulking woman; 'Of course, the doctor and I had to leave a particularly enthralling game of scrabble in order to make sure this resort becomes safe, and stays that way: he is eager to begin proceedings.' she handed the pistol wielders some illuminated, legal-looking, literature.

Under human rights and disease control ordinance sections one hundred and thirteen, article xi, and section one, article four: the assigned body or bodies of medical institutions are hereby authorised to enforce quarantine and isolation of infected or possibly infected areas, until all medical personnel agree that said area is free of potentially harmful infectious agents.
There shall be no incoming or outgoing traffic during the aforementioned period.
All patients and personnel must be accounted for and assigned a treatment/processing group.
Patients and all staff must stay within designated 'recovery' zones. Special 'medical convenience' cards will be issued to allow essential personnel access to defined operational areas.
Appropriate safety gear must be worn at all times. In this instance this may include: gloves, face masks, re-breathers, isolation suits, etc'¦
Ventilation systems and atmospheric generators must conform to Sirian standard guidelines. Filters must be present in each major airflow junction able to detect airborne concentrations of particles down to one part per million.
All environmental alert systems must be plainly visible to the relevant staff, and tested every forty standard Sirius days to ensure working order.
All ventilation, environmental, and life support systems must undergo a full disinfectant flush, be atomically scrubbed, treated with anti-bacterial retardants and rinsed with purified water.
Any machine or part thereof that cannot be subjected to the necessary cleansing must be dismantled, destroyed and replaced.
Any pregnant patients must each be isolated and individually examined. A series of prenatal test will also be necessary.
In-vitro fertilisation or the conception of a child within the quarantine area is not permitted.
It may sound absurd, and we are certainly not prudish: but we are serious as a heart-attack when we say no copulation whilst this infection is present. If a child is conceived by parents whose blood contains this disease or a strain of it, there are four possible outcomes for the child:
It will have difficulties developing and at birth.
It may survive and develop immunity to the disease.
It may survive and become a carrier for the disease.
It may survive and become host to an inconceivable mutation of the disease.
The latter two options of course mean a spread of the disease would also occur, which cannot be permitted.
(We've seen how people act in a crisis; a lot will try to mount the nearest piece of fresh meat with wild abandon: fear of death can bring people together, as I'm sure you can imagine.)
Treatment groups may not interact physically with other treatment groups until both parties are cleared and moved out of the quarantine zone.
At the co-ordinators discretion, after decontamination procedures it may be necessary to expose certain areas of the ship to the vacuum of space.

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The Co-ordinator spoke 'Right - here's the medicine you requested and our people here can help you distribute it if you please' as he lifted his arm: gesturing over the the huddled sets of fresh faces over white coats and red trousers; the congregation flinched as his arm lifted, as if fearing some giant object in flight. Of course we will need a suitable office from which to operate'¦' he mused to himself as the ranks of red trousers began passing forth crates, marked with the distinctive wordiness of Cryers' medical labelling.

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