Sunday, April 19, 2009

An Interview With Doctor Fernando Oliveira


I was blindfolded on the way to my next location to speak with Doctor Fernando Oliveira. All I know is that we were somewhere in the Amazon Rain Forest in Brazil. Oliveira was, or still is, a doctor who came into direct contact with the infected. This was unlike any other encounter I had heard up to this point. It was very violent the way he described it, well not very violent but rather very bloody and disgusting. A heart had just arrived in a plastic ice cooler. This heart was for a man named Herr Muller, who needed to have his heart replaced. It turns out that this heart was infected. Oliveira says that he did not know it at the time, but found out very soon after the surgery. He and a Doctor Silva performed the operation and Silva said he would stay and watch Herr Muller until he recovered. Oliveira told Silva to call him if there were any problem. Oliveira says that he went out that night and did not pick up his phone for an hour. When he picked it up, he heard that there was trouble at the clinic. Apparently, Muller had flat-lined and Silva tried to revive him. While reviving him, Silva was bitten by Muller on the hand. A nurse, Rosi, had run out of the room and locked the door behind her. When he got there (Oliveira) and saw the situation, he decided that he needed to get his gun from his car. He came back inside and opened the door. He saw Muller on top of Doctor Silva with flesh coming out of his mouth. Oliveira says he aimed and pulled the trigger of his Desert Eagle aiming for Muller's chest, but ended up shooting his head right off. There was blood all over the floor and a black liquid as well. This black liquid was also coming out of Muller's chest. He said he called the police and they came and cleaned up the room and covered up what happened that night. He and I talked about the spread of the infection through the donations of organs of the infected. He said that some people end up dying randomly after they have had a transplant without being bitten. We talked more about the possibilities of this happening and other related things to this subject. He seems like an interesting Doctor and I wish we could have talked more about his experiences with the infected.

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