She sneezed into her elbow and wrinkled her nose.

“Blurgh, so gross” she said.

She couldn’t know that the contents of her nasal evacuation had contained a microscopic anti-viral agent, which attacked and destroyed a potentially human-eradicating new virus that had begun to grow on her sleeve.

Lucky for us, eh?

Full disclosure: I’m reading a Tom Clancy novel that involves an Ebola outbreak. Yikes!