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“Since the discovery of Meritaten’s toriculture and the Centers for Disease Control in an attempt to revitalize the extinct plant”

“Do you have a cure in the works for the Evolution Plague?” Sandecker asked

“Thanks to the intact DNA we recovered,” she said, “we’ve finally been able to regenerate the silphium, the plant that was buried with Meritaten We also found out why it becarow, even in controlled settings It seee of soil and reild in ancient Libya, just didn’t have the ability to replenish themselves when the Romans harvested them in bulk”

“But you’re able to grow it now?” Loren said

She nodded “There’s no way to cultivate enough in a short tiue Our real plan is to synthesize the compounds foun

d in silphiuen We’ve created an initial sa We hope it can be distributed soon to the places where the Evolution Plague contaminated the water supply”

“In the e in female births?”

“It should be only a brief spike in the birth ratio,” Elise said “A year or two deviation, then hopefully equilibrium will be restored once the treatment is fully dispensed” She nodded to Pitt “Thanks to the records acquired froood idea of all those locations”

“Quite a few tankers were caught at sea before additional pathogens could be released,” Pitt said “Still, the conificant dispersal in soest cities”

“It’s a bit overwhel when you look at the number of potentially infected women,” Elise said “Thankfully, there’s no reason they can’t all be cured, given enough resources And the treatainst the cholera-like syue The trick will be convincing the wons of infection to take the cure Personally, I can’t wait to get back to El Salvador to bring the remedy to the people of Cerrón Grande”

Sandecker waved his cigar toward the artifacts “It looks like Princess Meritaten saved not only the eneration”