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	You think back to the months that you spent studying 
Š	the discipline of Deliverance at the Kai Monastery, 
Š	and you try to recall what you can about the illness 
Š	known as Bita Fever. 
	
	It is a highly contagious airborne disease that 
Š	originated in the Bita Swamp of Dessi. In humans it 
Š	is usually only fatal in the very young or the old; 
Š	healthy adults rarely die from it, although the 
Š	symptoms in those affected are uncomfortable and 
Š	unsightly. Victims suffer from a corpse-like pallor 
Š	and can sometimes develop a vivid scarlet rash that 
Š	particularly affects the face, feet and hands. 
Š	Gradually a normally healthy person who contracts the 
Š	disease will develop an immunity to it after fifteen 
Š	to twenty days, and outbreaks of Bita Fever in towns 
Š	and cities have rarely be known last longer than a 
Š	month.

	When you look at the faces of the mourners you notice 
Š	that many of them exhibit the symptoms of Bita Fever. 
Š	The marines have never before encountered this 
Š	tropical disease, and when you inform them of what 
Š	you know, they insist on leaving the town at once, 
Š	before the quarantine is put into force.


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