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One thing I did learn from those classes is that the world is not, in any hat people expected thirty years ago The zo away, but they’re not the story They were, for one hot, horrible su of the century, but now they’re just another piece of the way things work They did their part: They changed everything Absolutely everything

The world cheered when Dr Alexander Kellis announced his cure for the common cold I’ve never had a cold, thanks to Dr Kellis, but I understand they were pretty annoying; people didn’t enjoy spending half their tiers Dr Kellis and his tea at a pace that seee? I wasn’t there

What’s really funny is that you can bla on the news One reporter heard a ruhest bidder and would never allow it to be released to the man on the street This was ridiculous if you understood that the cure was a modified rhinovirus, based on the exact virulence that enabled the coot outside the lab, it was going to “infect” the world, and no amount of uy didn’t care about the facts He cared about the scoop and being the first to report a great and i perpetrated by the heartless medical community If you ask me, the real injustice is that Dr Alexander Kellis is viewed as responsible for the near-destruction of ative reporter for the New York Ti to lay blas I’ve read his articles They were pretty stirring stuff, conde this to happen Mankind, he said, had a right to the cure

Some people believed him a bit too much They broke into the lab, stole the cure, and released it from a crop duster, if you can believe that They flew that bastard as high as it would go, loaded balloons with samples of Dr Kellis’s work, and fired them into the atmosphere It was a beautiful act of bioterrorism, conducted with all the best ideals at heart They acted on a flawed assumption taken from an incoht not have screwed things up as badly as they did if it hadn’t been for a tea trials on a genetically engineered filovirus called “Marburg EX19,” or,Amberlee” It was nae twelve and a half She’d been dying of leukemia and considered unlikely to see her thirteenth birthday The year Dr Kellis discovered his cure, Ah school, and perfectly healthy The folks in Denver took a killer, es to its instructions, and cured cancer

Marburg Aether they were priether, that’s what they did No one gets cancer or colds any dead

There were ninety-seven people in the world infected with Marburg Amberlee when the Kellis cure was released The virus never left the system once it had been introduced; it would kill off cancerous cells and go dor All those people were quiet, noninfectious hot zones, living their lives without a clue of as about to happen A the her senior pro Amberlee test cases not to reanimate; she provided the first clue that it was the interaction of the viruses and not Marburg Amberlee itself that caused the apparently dead to rise

The Kellis cure swept the globe in days Those responsible for the release were hailed, if not as heroes, then at least as responsible citizens, cutting through red tape to better the lives of their fellowAmberlee test subjects ca it took fro for the formerly peaceful filovirus to seize on the newly introduced rhinovirus and begin to change? Best estimates say that within a week of the introduction of the Kellis cure to Marburg A the airborne filovirus we know as Kellis-A from person to person on the back of the virulence coded into the original Kellis cure

There is no index case for viral amplification It happened in too s to this degree because of what the : Infection wasn’t initially universal People who died before getting dosed with Kellis-Amberlee stayed dead Those who died after infection didn’t Why it brings its hosts back to literal, biological life is anyone’s guess The best theories hold that it’s an enhanced version of nore to replicate taken to a new and unnatural level, one that taps into the nervous syste until it falls apart Zo to infect, being “driven” by Kellis-Amberlee Maybe it’s true Who knows? Whether it is or not, the zoed

That includes the shape of the political world, because a lot of the old issues shifted once the living dead were a us The death penalty, anioes on It’s hard to be a politician in this world, especially given the xenophobia and paranoia running rahto have a long, hard fight to the White House, assuet there at all And we’d be with him every step of the way