The illness is highly infectious. Because there is a grave danger of it spreading to the army crippling our efforts against the enemy, it has been decided that we all remain here until the disease has run its course.
13 seconds sound clip from the Isle of the Dead (1945) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:21:00.793 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- I've seen men die drunk, and I've seen men die of the plague.
- There's no possibility of that here, is there?
- I'll send for Dr. Drossos. He'll know. And until he comes, everyone must stay on the island.
- We are faced with a very serious form of the plague, septicemic plague.
- I have to cross over to the village. Today is market day.
- No one may leave the island.
- I must safeguard the health of my troops.
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