"Anyway, if you drink the water, you get the bug, you get the fever, and you’re probably dead in forty-eight hours. But even while you’re honking up your stomach lining," she goes on, "you can’t infect anyone else. Not by breathing on them, spitting on them, honking on them, drekking on them, bleeding on them ... nothing. The sole vector for the bug that’s ever been found is the water of those particular streams. If you don’t drink the water, you’ll never get the bug. Got it?"