Hmm, I did not associate drooling to a (cold) virus, like I would with sniffling/sneezing
Instead it gave me the idea of someone who's been lobotomized/electroshocked, or something like that, and it didnt make things sound better
I don't know if they could do any better, maybe stop that loop after a while.. BTW when you come back later on in the game, he/she starts drooling again
then immediatly goes to the book-reading "hmmm?"