InAlienable2008

[Dr. Proway and Eric are looking at X-ray scans]

Dr. Proway:
Well, as far as I can tell, it isn't a virus or a bacterial infection. It's nothing you contracted at the lab. Old tight-ass Shilling won't have to worry about his insurance rates. And it's not a tumor.

Eric Norris:
You've told me what it isn't.

Dr. Proway:
As of now, some form of as-yet unidentified parasite that is growing inside you at a very rapid rate. It seems to have tapped into the cardiovascular network through thousands of filament-like protrusions that act as conduits. It has also compromised your respiratory system. Like a true parasite in host, it is getting everything it needs to survive from you.

Eric Norris:
Right. Oxygen, blood nutrients.

Dr. Proway:
Mm-hm. It really is grotesque.

Eric Norris:
Yeah.

Dr. Proway:
A monstrosity. But evidently, it has a physiology compatible with yours. Do you have any idea how you could have come in contact with this?

Eric Norris:
No. And to remove it?

Dr. Proway:
Well, that's the b*tch, Eric. It has integrated itself so insidiously into your biology that to remove it would cause massive hemorrhaging and instantaneous death.

Eric Norris:
[grimly] Prognosis?

Dr. Proway:
I've never seen anything like this.

Eric Norris:
Prognosis?

Dr. Proway:
Well, it'd just be a guess. But I think, either way, it will kill you in a very short period of time.