A virophage is like bacteriophage viruses, which infects and sickens bacteria, but virophages infect viruses. Rita's patronizing response sickens her coworkers, who ostracize her. Laborer Mike Ryerson buries Danny after his funeral, then also sickens and dies. When the plague comes to Fulda, Joan sickens. Satchel develops pneumonia, and the survivors watch helplessly as he sickens and then dies. He is also the "poison" that fatally sickens the Taylor administration. John's wife, who has taken care of him, sickens and dies. Soon after, Catherine sickens and dies. Once exposed to the desert sun, however, the hermaphrodite sickens and dies of thirst. The sight of the corpses abandoned to the scavenging crows sickens him. The bite sickens him, and the group barely escapes. In the final scene, he sickens from being suspected and dies (1543). The caterpillar sickens until Isaac accidentally discovers it feeds on a popular hallucinogenic drug. Barnstaple sickens, but seems to recover and then insists on going to the beach. He has to leave, and although he has promised fidelity and to return, she sickens.