The Andromeda Strain
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Dr. Jeremy Stone Dr. Stone is a Nobel prize-winning scientist and the acknowledged leader of the Project Wildfire team. Stone wrote a letter to the President concerning the possibility of alien bacteria infecting earth to returning American satellites. Then the government organized a procedure for disinfecting all men and equipment returning from space. Stone also formed a group that detailed the way any living thing could be studied. This procedure resulted in the construction of the Project Wildfire facility in Nevada. When the lab was completed and a group of five scientists needed to be selected to study new organisms, Stone was one of these scientists. Although he is pleased to see the government consider his ideas, he doesnt realize that he is being used in the hopes that he can help the military advance its development of biological weapons.

Dr. Peter Leavitt A biologist trained to treat infectious disease. He has been through alot and has seen many plagues and epidemics to know the importance of it. Leavitt recruited Mark Hall to the project, while they were working at the same hospital - Leavitt was the Chief of Bacteriology. Stone has the most confidence in him, Leavitt proves the most unreliable of the team members. He fails to close his history of seizures brought on by flashing lights. During the most important part of the novel, when the bacteria is spreading throughout the Wildfire facility, Leavitt is shutdown by seizures and spends the remainder of the novel in the hospital.

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