The release date for the English version of 'Life Support' by
Tess Gerritsen is Aug 1998. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
The word that Dr. Toby Harper lived by was control. She made an effort to maintain order in both her life and the ER. However, nobody could have been ready for the guy she checks into Springer Hospital on a calm evening. He is very ill and delirious; he seldom reacts to medication. And after that, he vanishes completely. Toby finds a second patient with the same illness after doing another search. Furthermore, it offers a startling twist: direct tissue exchange is the only way for the virus to propagate. Toby will soon be following a trail that leads from a sixteen-year-old prostitute who is pregnant to an unanticipated catastrophe in her own family. It's only then that she learns the unimaginable: a terrible and horrific disease is poised to break out.