1.
Smack! Ow! A mosquito had landed on my arm, bitten me, and had been reduced to legs and green liquid. As I walked on through the mall dark alley, in the large town of Paris, I didn’t even know how much pain I would be in for in the near future.

2.
Minutes earlier, I had gone to the store to buy food for the family because it was my turn, but I was terrified watching the bodies of people infected with the yellow fever. Bodies, being shoveled up into a big wagon and shipped off to be either burned or buried. Just the thought of it scared my family half to death and this is why we take turns going to the store. Days earlier my mother had died, her face, stuck in a petrifying stare. Then my father, dead while working on the farm, his face yellow as a sunflower’s petals. Everyone who was infected had the symptoms and no one knew how we got it or how to get rid of it. Soon it was labeled as a pandemic so I, as a doctor, went off to find the cure myself.

3.
I set off for America to study the virus there and while on the ship we hit a storm. The storm had ripped through the ship and caused many to die and I was a lucky fellow, I had washed up in America. 3 passerby’s had found me and transported me to their home to recover. As I soon I awoke I left for a medical university. Knowing little English, I had a hard time finding people that could speak French. After 10 hours of searching, finally found a university that accepted me. A few days later I started feeling sickly and thought nothing of it. A student came in telling me that he thought I was a little yellow. Thinking that I was actually sick, I laid down to rest but instead of feeling better in the slightest, I started to vomit. After a few days’ rest, I was nearly done with my vaccine but again started to gain a fever. I called a doctor and he diagnosed that I was infected with the yellow fever.

4.
I began working as quickly as I could so I had time to test it on myself. Time was coming to an end as I hopelessly worked on the project and failed to make any progress. All I needed was 1 ingredient but could not find it anywhere. No matter what I did the disease would not go away. On the death’s door, a miracle occurred. I began coughing blood as I finished the incomplete vaccine. Too slow to turn away, blood shot out of my hand into the vaccine. I didn’t realize this had happened and continued mixing. I checked for a positive and waited. As I waited I began vomiting and coughing up blood. My eyes grew heavy and soon, everything went black.

5.
When I woke up I heard the sounds of sirens and quickly got up. I was in an ambulance and had no idea where I was. My chest was burning with pain. My head, a splitting headache, my stomach turning over in its pocket. Rushing towards the operating room or what I thought was the operating room, I asked the doctor if he knew whether my vaccine was a positive or a negative. Not a word came out of his mouth, so I assumed the answer was no. They put me in a room and put something in the IV bag that I was not familiar with. When I asked what it was they told me that it was my vaccine.

6.
The doctor had explained to me that the student who found me had seen the positive. As I listened to his explanation my eyes grew heavy and I fell asleep. That was the last time I would ever listen to anybody again or, do anything again.