The skin of his face turned yellowish, with brilliant starlike red speckles. He began to look like a zombie. His personality changed and became sullen, resentful, angry. His memory seemed to be blown away. When a hot virus multiplies in its host, it can center the body of the virus particles from the brain to the skin.
Experts then say the virus undergoes, extreme amplification.
By the time extreme amplification peaks out, an eyedropper of the victim's blood may contain a hundred million particles of virus. In a waiting area at the Casualty Department, Nairobi Hospital, Monet appeared to hold himself rigid, as if any movement would rupture something inside him. In effect, he was having a stroke throughout his whole body. Clots were accumulating in his intestinal muscles, cutting up the blood supply to his intestines. The intestinal muscles were beginning to die.