Virologist: The Price of a Mistake

4 hrs. 6 min.

Medicine & Health

Language Russian

Author Alexander Chepurnov

Narrator Roman Volkov

Description

Any routine job can turn into an accident if you’re a virologist. A monkey that manages to bite through the bars of a cage, a drop that slips off the tip of a pipette, a container accidentally overturned with the substance being studied, a syringe needle that’s too long and pierces the experimental animal’s muscle through and through and then enters a hand. Anything can go wrong—so all a virologist can hope for is their own experience and skills, but even those don’t always save you. And at the tip of the syringe needle—thousands of lethal doses…

Aleksey is an experienced infectious disease researcher studying the terrifying Ebola virus. In the infectious animal ward, an infected rabbit scratched him. Panic, fear for one’s life and for the fate of loved ones, pain and frustration—any person would experience that in such a situation. However, the lab has its own instructions…