"But then there are some that act differently." The dry lecture-tone’s back, and I get the sudden strong feeling she’s using it to numb out her own emotions. And that’s even scarier. "Some bugs—viruses and bacteria—can get into your system," she goes on, "and just stay there for months or years or decades ... sometimes your whole life. They’re totally latent—they’re there, but they don’t do anything. Until something happens to trigger them. Then they start to replicate, and they start to make the body sick. AIDS was like that before the T5 phage treatment was discovered. HMHVV is like that. Harmless until triggered, then they go on a rampage.