[That's a sad thing to say, isn't it? Ethlyn hasn't spent any time with Ange before, but so far she hasn't struck Ethlyn as being untrustworthy.]

Is that so? I don't have any reason to feel that way about you, at least.

I'll tell the people I meet, too. Hopefully, whatever caused this disease is no longer alive itself. From what I've learned of germ theory, many diseases need an active, living host to persist beyond their source. [It goes without saying that there's no such hosts available in this place, and haven't been for at least several decades.] There are exceptions, but they're not common.