Yesterday as reported, I had two patients with small skin injuries and one of them also with a sore throat and nasal congestion, but fortunately everything indicates it is at most a common virus of the upper respiratory tract, and he keeps on doing his job in a very competent, dynamic and productive way, with no prejudices.

I am still alert about the state of his health but probably the medicines he is taking will do well, relieving those symptoms. We will keep paying attention to his condition and as an antique hindu medicine proverb says, let us keep entertaining the disease entertained while Mother Nature takes her course.

As others health concerns we had also two issues discussed but not entirely solved. A zoonosis may end or at least seriously affect a mission. We captured one packrat yesterday late night and because of that we realized the problem might be bigger than we, or other crews, had thought, based on previous reports. Why is that? Simply because in the morning we had a small visitor who quickly disappeared, this mouse was about 7cm and that poor one captured at night was no less than 15cm size. Possibly other crew members might have noticed they have seen different rodents but I could not find any report concerning these conditions. We are supposing there must be more than one nest in the walls. The other environmental hazard might be a 'Hobo Spider' (Tegenaria agrestis) quickly caught by our commander.