Talk:Christmas in July/@comment-25678963-20141122201155/@comment-24101790-20141122224916

Most likely the bacteria would have been denatured/destroyed upon re-entry. I toyed with the idea of a sequel like "The Andromeda Strain" where people start getting sick from the bacteria, but it just seemed like it would be a little too much disbelief to ask the reader to suspend. As with most stories, the reader is asked to believe/play-along a little bit, but the author also needs to try to make the story believable.