x_medical | Status update: Haroun

OOC Note: This post occurs before this phone call.

Jean or Hank, can you pass this onto the team list since I don't have access? Thanks.

So, almost eighteen hours later and we have achieved... a holding pattern. The heat resistant gel seems to be doing it's intended task of maintaining Haroun's temperature at a steady level, without the dangerous spokes we we seeing earlier. His vitals are weak, but also steady, and the physical, non-cybernetic injuries have been treated. We removed the jetpack last night, since that was impeding our ability to treat him, but the rest of the cybernetics remain in place - the kind of surgery required to address that is impossible until the spore's purged form his sytem. He's too weak and the shock would kill him.

On that note... Not a lot of progress there yet. Moira's last batch of vaccine/spore-be-gone seems to be doing something, but it's not killing the spore, just slowing down its reproductive rate. We've established that it cannot survive longer than an hour outside a host body, and it's aerosol in spread - it mixes with the moisture produced by the body and becomes airborne once it leaves the pores. So, sweat, respiration, saliva and excretions. The gel tank is actually helping in that regard, binding the stuff in a non-friendly environment, but again, it's still in his system and we need to get it out.

Helpers, thanks for the assistance last night. I've drawn up a roster of Tommy-watching for you, let me know if there's any problems with that. Hank will continue to supervise in between spore research. Jean and I are splitting watching Haroun over the next twenty-four hours, and we'll reassess after that.

Now I have a couch in my office calling me. Come get me if anything happens. I mean it.