As if being HIV positive wasn't enough, Wes is accidentally scratched by a needle tainted with a genetically-engineered, virulent strain of Hepatitis C.

After an experimental treatment for Hep C nearly kills him, Wes quits NorBAC to enroll in a revolutionary HCV program in Stockholm. A racist city councilor claims his daughter was poisoned by Muslim extremists. The FDA is willing to expedite some drugs to save an immune-deficient woman infected with smallpox.