hmmm....i still reckon there was no disease but that was a smokescreen for poisoning them (less sophisticated killing methods back then?) Rousseua out them dying - the "quarantine" together and thought there was a virus...Dharma maybe thought there was a virus - Bens explanation for all their workers dying...that is why their was that pit of dead and dharma hadnt "risked" taking their bodies back to real world?! i still beleive there is gonna be something COMPLETELY out there in next few seasons that will blow everyones theories away...either that or the producers have created a nonsensical series that has no conclusion and they will all laugh at us whole heartedly....

Appearing to be of French origin, Danielle Rousseau maintained she was a member of a six-person science expedition operating in the Pacific along with her lover Robert. The two were very much in love, and Rousseau carried in her possession a music box he had once given to her. At this point in time, Danielle was seven months pregnant.
The ship was three days out of Tahiti when it picked up a transmission. It was a voice repeating the numbers and they changed course to investigate. The instruments malfunctioned. It was night. There was a storm with strange sounds. The ship slammed into rocks and ran aground with the hull breached beyond repair. So they made camp. They made a shelter. There is some evidence from Rousseau's map to suggest that the shelter was actually the second camp made on the island with the first being closer to the point where the ship ran aground.
The team continued to search for the transmission source. After several weeks, they reached the Dark Territory and Montand lost his arm at some point. In the area near the Black Rock they found the radio tower. From her story, this would seem to have been about six weeks after their arrival on the island. When revealed, the radio tower turned out to not be located anywhere near the Black Rock.
On the way back from the Black Rock, there was an as yet unexplained encounter. Danielle mysteriously says "It was them. They were the carriers. The Others.". She believes that the other members of the team contracted the sickness from the Others. She later claimed that at least up to the time she had met Sayid, she had never seen one of the Others but only heard them as whispers in the jungle. Because of this, there is no way to know if what she calls the Others are the same as the people who now live at the Barracks.
After returning to the shelter, some of the team continued to search for the meaning of the numbers while they waited for rescue. This is likely the partial source for what is known as Rousseau's map. But then she says the sickness came. She says the sickness took them one after the other. She eventually killed Robert who she claimed was sick by first removing the firing pin from his gun and engaging him in a confrontation where she shot him dead.
Rousseau explained her motivations for killing the other members of the team as follows: "I had no choice. They were already lost. What would have happened if we were rescued? I couldn't let that happen. I won't."

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We do not know what illness that Danielle's team had.. She said that they got sick and then she ended up killing them so that if rescued they would not spread this disease or virus..

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WOW , well in that case this theory may be close ..... Thanks for the background refresher ...

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