The Round Protagonist

In the book Code Orange, Mitty learned all about small pox because he ended up finding out that he had it. How Mitty was affected was because he found out that he got it from opening up a book that his mom gave him, she bought it from a dead guy. the dead guy had it and he put a scab in between two of the pages and when Mitty went to go and read it he inhaled the particles from the scab. when he did that he ended up caching small pox.