It may have been shivering, or it may have been the agonal stage of death from Ebola infection, the moment when the person dies with shaking or tremors. Brantly’s shivering continued, while Dr. Mobula reported that his temperature had started to drop. In fifteen minutes it fell from 105 down to 100—from fatal range down to a mild fever. The shaking went on for half an hour, gradually decreasing, and finally it stopped. It was now thirty minutes after the drug had started entering his bloodstream. Brantly sat up in bed. Just then, Plyler put his phone up against the screen in the window and
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