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The Lost Digidestined: Stories from the Southern Sector - Episode 5: The Crest of Sustenance (5/17) [incomplete]

The Lost Digidestined: Stories from the Southern Sector

Episode 5: The Crest of Sustenance

From  the Stories from the Southern Sector section of The Lost Digidestined page of  Blonde Ambition

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The Lost DigiDestined

Episode 5: The Crest of Sustenance

"Nope, nothing here either."

Sforzie studied the screen on her D-terminal. Driamon sighed.

"We're never going to find the others," she said.

"Don't feel so bad, Driamon," Sforzie closed the screen. They had been checking the tv gates for activity.

"But we've being going west for two weeks," Driamon said. "At this rate we'll be on Sunstone island before we find anything."

"Sunstone Island?"

"It's an island off the west coast of the Southern Sector," Driamon said as they continued in the direction that the mysterious red light had flashed weeks before. "It used to be where Egg Village was."

"Egg Village was?"

"Egg Village is a place where all the Southern Sector Digimon are reborn," Driamon said. "Digieggs hatch there and are taken care of until they're ready to live on their own."

"You hatched there?"

"On Sunstone Island? Yup. But when Melanomon took control, he took over Sunstone Island. The caregivers of Egg Village took all the Digieggs and rebuilt the village on the mainland."

"Melanomon sounds like a creep."

Driamon glowered. "He is. I don't think nice guys go around enslaving Digimon."

"Why does he do it?"

"He's evil," Driamon said. "Like...like a cancer. A cancer of the Digiworld."

"Melanomon..." Sforzie said thoughtfully.

"Don't worry about him right now," Driamon said. "He stays on Sunstone most of the time. He just sends his flunkies to the mainland to collect new slaves."

"What do his slaves do?"

"They...infect...they put the black paint on more Digimon. Just spreading the evil like a virus."

"Productive."

"Unfortunately."

The pair walked quietly through the woods for a few more minutes, until they noticed that the forest had started to thin out.

"We're getting close to the beach!" Driamon said brightly. "Swim time!"

"Silly Digimon," Sforzie laughed.

"I hope saltwater doesn't make my fur shrink!"

They finally did reach the beach. The ocean stretched away to the horizon, where a small shadow blemished the skyline.

"That's Sunstone Island!" Driamon splashed into the waves. "But it's so far away..."

"How'd you get to the mainland from the island?"

"There used to be a boat that the Egg Village caregivers ran, taking in training Digimon to the mainland. But not anymore, since Egg Village is on the northern coast of the mainland now."

Sforzie sat in the sand, pulling out her D-terminal. "So how are we going to get there now?"

"Not sure," Driamon sighed, flopping down next to Sforzie.

"I thought you were going to swim."

"I'll get to it."

Sforzie studied the map on the D-terminal. "I wonder what this flashing thing is."

Driamon leaned to look. "What flashing thing?"

"Not sure. I never saw it before, until we got here."

"How far away is it?"

Sforzie pointed up the beach. "About a mile thattaway."

"Well, should we go check it out?"

She looked at the map again. "I...guess so. Although we don't know if it'll be safe or not."

"I've never known for a bad Digimon to show up on the map."

"True..."

So they went up the beach, following the mysterious blip on Sforzie's D-terminal.

"Is it moving?" Driamon panted as she flopped alongside her partner.

"Nope," Sforzie shook her head. She looked over at Driamon. "You okay?"

"Oh yeah," Driamon said breathlessly. "I'm just not built for walking very fast."

Sforzie stopped, laughing. "You only have two legs, silly."

"Yeah, that's right."

"Why not swim?"

"I wouldn't want you to get lost."

"On the beach?"

Driamon smiled crookedly and nodded. "You blondes get lost easily, I've heard."

They continued walking.

"Where'd you hear that blondes got lost easily?"

"In your room," Driamon said. "Halie was talking on the phone with her boyfriend. She was telling blonde jokes."

"How nice," Sforzie said sourly. "Of course, she's a brunnette, and isn't exactly the brightest bulb in the room."

"How'd she do in classes last semester?"

"Better question--how didn't she?" Sforzie stopped again, looking at the D-terminal. "We should be right on top of it now."

Driamon fanned the sand around her. "I don't see anything."

"Maybe it's buried--aah!" As she moved a foot, Sforzie tripped over something hidden in the sand. She regained her composure, toeing the sand. Something blue and white glinted at her feet.

"What is it?" Driamon wondered, pushing sand away from the object. After the sand was cleared away, Sforzie picked it up. The object was blue on one side, shaped like a strange skull with a silver horn protuding from the forehead. The underside was white and rounded like an egg, embelished by a strange blue and white fin, and a mysterious silver design.

"It's warm," Sforzie noted.

"It's a digi-egg, but not like one I've ever seen," Driamon looked at the egg curiously as Sforzie lowered it for her to see. "It has a crest on it."

"Another crest?" Sforzie looked at the silver marking. "It's not like the one on the stone you found."

"Maybe it's for someone else."

"The egg or the stone?"

Driamon tilted her head. "The stone. Your D-terminal didn't notice the stone, but it did find this egg. It must be meant for you, Sforzie."

"Well..." Sforzie looked at the egg thoughtfully. "What do we do with it?"

"I'm not sure," Driamon admitted.

"Maybe we have to hatch it," Sforzie suggested.

"It doesn't really look like a hatching type egg," Driamon said. "More like..."

"Like what?"

"I'm not sure," Driamon shook her head. "I feel like I've seen it before, but I know I haven't."

"Odd. I guess we'll just carry it for now."

"Sounds good." Driamon reached up a paw and touched the egg. She jerked back in surprise. "Woah!"

"What? What is it?"

"There's so much energy in that thing!" Driamon exclaimed.

In her pocket, Sforzie's digivice began to beep loudly. She pulled it out.

"What's happening?" she said, although she had an inkling... "I think.." Sforzie pointed the D-3 at Driamon, who was engulfed in a bright blue light.

"Driamon digivolve to.... Karamon!"

A much larger version of Driamon appeared, and Sforzie stepped back in surprise.

"I forgot how much bigger you get when you Digivolve!"

Karamon rose her head, her nose coming a foot or so higher than Sforzie. She smiled. "I'm Karamon, the Champion form of Driamon."

"Champion form..." Sforzie blinked. "How many forms do you have, anyways?"

"Just another one, I think," Karamon tilted her head. "I'm not really sure. It varies by the Digimon."

Karamon stretched her big front arms for moment, and Sforzie smiled.

"You've got a fin on your back now," she said. Karamon looked over her shoulder.

"So I do." She bobbed her head. "I dunno, do you think yellow is my color?"

"Looks fine on you!" Sforzie laughed. Karamon chuckled.

"You know, Sforzie, we should be able to get to Sunstone Island now."

"We should?"

Karamon nodded. "You can ride on my back, and I'll swim over. After all, I didn't Digivolve just for nothing!"

"You're right, Karamon." Sforzie looked at the Digimon's back again. "So where do I sit?"

"Oh, on my back, silly," Karamon said. "Don't worry, it won't hurt my fin if you sit on it."

"You sure?"

"Sure I'm sure!" Karamon chuckled again, a strange sound considering the amount that her voice had deepened through the Digivolve. "There's just a slight problem."

"What's that?"

"I'm not very mobile on land," Karamon grinned. Sforzie laughed.

"Don't worry, you can just go back to being cute once we get to the island."

"You saying I'm not cute?"

"You're no rookie," Sforzie laughed, patting Karamon on the neck. "Now let's get moving. I don't want to get stuck on that island at night if there aren't any tv gates there."

"There will be, I hope," Karamon said as she pulled herself toward the water. "I don't want to be swimming through the ocean at night. There are many dangers to the sea..."

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What awaits Sforzie and Karamon on Sunstone Island? Find out in episode 6!

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He spent his life studying mosquitoes, and then it became personal.

After working in Senegal, this scientist accidentally discovered very important info about Zika.

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On Aug. 30, 2008, Brian Foy had just gotten home from a research trip in Senegal, a country in West Africa, when he began to feel sick.

Foy is a biologist specializing in insect-transmitted diseases and an associate professor at Colorado State University. He had been in rural Senegal with a graduate student researching malaria and noticed that when he got back, he felt not quite right.

Foy (right) with equipment for aspirating mosquitoes in Senegal. Image via Brian Foy, used with permission.

"It started out by me just feeling really exhausted," Foy says. "It was hard to really know if this was just jet lag or not ... and then that exhaustion just progressed into a vague headache. I really needed to cover my eyes and kind of shy away from the light."

He developed a rash across his torso and joint pain. He later got prostatitis as well.

Foy immediately called the graduate student who had been working with him in Senegal. He had many of the same symptoms.

Both suspected that their symptoms were classic signs of an arbovirus — a type of virus, such as dengue, that is often caught after being bitten by mosquitoes.

The Aedes aegypti mosquito is the species that transmits the Zika, chikungunya, dengue, and yellow fever arboviruses. Photo by Luis Robayo/AFP/Getty Images.

After all, they had been working in remote villages for about a month and a half, collecting mosquitoes for a malaria study. And both of the researchers had been bitten numerous times by numerous different kinds of mosquitoes.

"We’d work into the late evening with shorts and sandals," Foy remembers. So, it made sense that they caught the virus while they were there.

But then, Foy’s wife got sick too.

She hadn’t been to Senegal. She hadn’t even left northern Colorado for a while, but she had many of the same symptoms: sensitivity to light, a rash, swollen joints, muscle pain, and bloodshot eyes. In fact, he says, her symptoms almost seemed more severe. "To this day, she has trouble opening and closing cans, jars, and lids, things like that," he says.  

All three sent their blood to be tested at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

A lab technician analyses blood samples. Photo by Vanderlei Almeida/AFP/Getty Images

But the CDC couldn’t determine what they had right away. It wasn’t until a whole year later — after all three had long recovered — that they received a diagnosis.

They had Zika.

Zika is indeed a mosquito-borne arbovirus, as Foy had suspected he had, but it just wasn’t one that he (or the CDC) had thought to test for in 2008.

"Even though I had heard of the Zika virus, I didn’t really know much about it," Foy says. "[And] the first time we tested our blood, the CDC wasn’t really thinking about Zika either."

It was only after Foy’s graduate student went back to Senegal that he got the recommendation to re-test their blood for Zika, which was beginning to become more widely known due to rising infection numbers. "So, it took a long time — unfortunately that’s science sometimes," he adds.

This is a digitally-colorized transmission electron microscopic (TEM) image of Zika virus, which is colored red. Image via Cynthia Goldsmith/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Zika has been around since 1947, but it has become a lot more widely known — and covered in the news — since it reached pandemic proportions in South America in 2015 and 2016. And in September 2016, urged by numerous organizations including the March of Dimes, Congress approved $1.1 billion to help fight the spread and effects of the Zika virus through vaccine research and health care.

The virus doesn’t always cause symptoms, but when it does, the more common symptoms are the ones that Foy, his wife, and his graduate student experienced.

However, it can also cause complications, such as Guillain-Barré syndrome, and a Zika infection during pregnancy can cause birth defects, notably microcephaly, where a baby's head is smaller than expected and typically includes brain damage. In severe cases, it can cause a range of other health problems — including seizures, hearing loss, or vision problems — or be life threatening.

The fact that Foy’s wife was diagnosed with Zika too, without traveling, and that their kids were not sick meant something important: The virus was most probably transmitted through sex.

Until that point, it had been assumed that Zika could only be spread by the bite of the Aedes aegypti mosquito.

Aedes aegypti mosquitos in a lab. Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images.

Foy wrote about his experience with sexual transmission of Zika in a scientific journal in 2011, but his case was considered largely anecdotal until this past year, when the CDC officially confirmed that Zika is sexually transmittable.

"In places like Brazil, where people are being bitten by mosquitoes and having sex, it’s hard to distinguish what the route of transmission was," he says. It is only when travelers come home that it becomes clear that it has been transmitted sexually.

And the fact that Zika can be sexually transmitted is incredibly important information, especially to families that are thinking of having a baby. The news even prompted some affected countries, such as El Salvador, to advise women not to get pregnant until 2018 (sparking controversy in some countries where birth control and abortions are hard to obtain or banned).

Since this discovery, the CDC has issued a number of guidelines to help protect travelers from Zika.

The CDC says that tourists — especially pregnant women — should protect themselves while they are in these countries, but they should also continue to protect themselves, either by abstaining from sex or using condoms, when they get home so they don’t pass along the virus to their partners. Women are advised to use condoms for at least eight weeks after travel, men for at least six months.

Women should be especially careful if they are pregnant. The CDC says it might be worth postponing any nonessential travel to countries with the virus to avoid getting a mosquito bite in the first place.

Aedes aegypti mosquitos in containers at a lab in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Photo by Nelson Almeida/AFP/Getty Images.

Foy’s case shows just how important further research on Zika is.

And this is why, today, he is continuing his work on Zika, with the goal to better understand sexual transmission of the virus. In particular, he is hoping to understand why women contract it more often than men — and if, as in the case of his wife, their symptoms are more severe.

With further research, the goal for all scientists is to not only better understand the virus, but also help all of us better learn how to protect ourselves and those we love.

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He spent his life studying mosquitoes, and then it became personal.

After working in Senegal, this scientist accidentally discovered very important info about Zika.

<br>

On Aug. 30, 2008, Brian Foy had just gotten home from a research trip in Senegal, a country in West Africa, when he began to feel sick.

Foy is a biologist specializing in insect-transmitted diseases and an associate professor at Colorado State University. He had been in rural Senegal with a graduate student researching malaria and noticed that when he got back, he felt not quite right.

Foy (right) with equipment for aspirating mosquitoes in Senegal. Image via Brian Foy, used with permission.

"It started out by me just feeling really exhausted," Foy says. "It was hard to really know if this was just jet lag or not ... and then that exhaustion just progressed into a vague headache. I really needed to cover my eyes and kind of shy away from the light."

He developed a rash across his torso and joint pain. He later got prostatitis as well.

Foy immediately called the graduate student who had been working with him in Senegal. He had many of the same symptoms.

Both suspected that their symptoms were classic signs of an arbovirus — a type of virus, such as dengue, that is often caught after being bitten by mosquitoes.

The Aedes aegypti mosquito is the species that transmits the Zika, chikungunya, dengue, and yellow fever arboviruses. Photo by Luis Robayo/AFP/Getty Images.

After all, they had been working in remote villages for about a month and a half, collecting mosquitoes for a malaria study. And both of the researchers had been bitten numerous times by numerous different kinds of mosquitoes.

"We’d work into the late evening with shorts and sandals," Foy remembers. So, it made sense that they caught the virus while they were there.

But then, Foy’s wife got sick too.

She hadn’t been to Senegal. She hadn’t even left northern Colorado for a while, but she had many of the same symptoms: sensitivity to light, a rash, swollen joints, muscle pain, and bloodshot eyes. In fact, he says, her symptoms almost seemed more severe. "To this day, she has trouble opening and closing cans, jars, and lids, things like that," he says.  

All three sent their blood to be tested at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

A lab technician analyses blood samples. Photo by Vanderlei Almeida/AFP/Getty Images

But the CDC couldn’t determine what they had right away. It wasn’t until a whole year later — after all three had long recovered — that they received a diagnosis.

They had Zika.

Zika is indeed a mosquito-borne arbovirus, as Foy had suspected he had, but it just wasn’t one that he (or the CDC) had thought to test for in 2008.

"Even though I had heard of the Zika virus, I didn’t really know much about it," Foy says. "[And] the first time we tested our blood, the CDC wasn’t really thinking about Zika either."

It was only after Foy’s graduate student went back to Senegal that he got the recommendation to re-test their blood for Zika, which was beginning to become more widely known due to rising infection numbers. "So, it took a long time — unfortunately that’s science sometimes," he adds.

This is a digitally-colorized transmission electron microscopic (TEM) image of Zika virus, which is colored red. Image via Cynthia Goldsmith/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Zika has been around since 1947, but it has become a lot more widely known — and covered in the news — since it reached pandemic proportions in South America in 2015 and 2016. And in September 2016, urged by numerous organizations including the March of Dimes, Congress approved $1.1 billion to help fight the spread and effects of the Zika virus through vaccine research and health care.

The virus doesn’t always cause symptoms, but when it does, the more common symptoms are the ones that Foy, his wife, and his graduate student experienced.

However, it can also cause complications, such as Guillain-Barré syndrome, and a Zika infection during pregnancy can cause birth defects, notably microcephaly, where a baby's head is smaller than expected and typically includes brain damage. In severe cases, it can cause a range of other health problems — including seizures, hearing loss, or vision problems — or be life threatening.

The fact that Foy’s wife was diagnosed with Zika too, without traveling, and that their kids were not sick meant something important: The virus was most probably transmitted through sex.

Until that point, it had been assumed that Zika could only be spread by the bite of the Aedes aegypti mosquito.

Aedes aegypti mosquitos in a lab. Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images.

Foy wrote about his experience with sexual transmission of Zika in a scientific journal in 2011, but his case was considered largely anecdotal until this past year, when the CDC officially confirmed that Zika is sexually transmittable.

"In places like Brazil, where people are being bitten by mosquitoes and having sex, it’s hard to distinguish what the route of transmission was," he says. It is only when travelers come home that it becomes clear that it has been transmitted sexually.

And the fact that Zika can be sexually transmitted is incredibly important information, especially to families that are thinking of having a baby. The news even prompted some affected countries, such as El Salvador, to advise women not to get pregnant until 2018 (sparking controversy in some countries where birth control and abortions are hard to obtain or banned).

Since this discovery, the CDC has issued a number of guidelines to help protect travelers from Zika.

The CDC says that tourists — especially pregnant women — should protect themselves while they are in these countries, but they should also continue to protect themselves, either by abstaining from sex or using condoms, when they get home so they don’t pass along the virus to their partners. Women are advised to use condoms for at least eight weeks after travel, men for at least six months.

Women should be especially careful if they are pregnant. The CDC says it might be worth postponing any nonessential travel to countries with the virus to avoid getting a mosquito bite in the first place.

Aedes aegypti mosquitos in containers at a lab in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Photo by Nelson Almeida/AFP/Getty Images.

Foy’s case shows just how important further research on Zika is.

And this is why, today, he is continuing his work on Zika, with the goal to better understand sexual transmission of the virus. In particular, he is hoping to understand why women contract it more often than men — and if, as in the case of his wife, their symptoms are more severe.

With further research, the goal for all scientists is to not only better understand the virus, but also help all of us better learn how to protect ourselves and those we love.

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