Zombie Science

[peachakean]

I got ridiculously excited about this one, which I wrote out as a counterpoint to the various theories that green flu was created as a bioweapon. Road to hell, good intentions and wot.

THEORY: Green Flu is a viral vector and the pandemic spread from a clinical trial that used it for gene therapy.Gene therapy is meant to replace or repair a

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[bardicfeline]

This is an interesting theory...and yeah, it makes a kind of horrifying sense to me that someone might have accidentally created the disease in an attempt to cure something else, rather than an evil yet incompetent organization making a super virus for THE EVULZ. (I always wonder why anyone would think a bioweapon would be a good idea...if there is any strategy that seems almost designed to backfire on you...)

And yeah...I think ONE of Ceda's mistakes in how they handled trying to contain the outbreak was that they were still treating the green flu as if there was only a single strain. Heck, it's possible that the common strain itself went through a few mutations after the first generation, and the special strains might as well be considered different diseases all together. It sort of makes me think of the problems we had in finding a cure for HIV, now that I think of it.

[peachakean]

Being evil and then being all MYSTERIOUS about it?
Terrible idea.
Good intentions and cooperation? Better.
THIS WASN'T SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN. WE SCREWED UP SO BAD, YOU GUYS.

15-30 distinct subtypes by the time they figured it out, my god.

Five years from now kids getting vaccines will be getting DTaP, MMR and SBHTW. Other generations just had polio...

[veloxyll]

Oooh, nice. That could be a reasonable hypothesis for how it happened. And doesn't require Umbrella Corp style actions.

That'd also give at least some reason for why the military suspects the immunity gene passes through the male side, too. They may have the company's research data, including earlier clinical trials. Though then there's the whole 'patient zero' at Mercy Hospital thing. Though I guess if it didn't start in Mercy-town he could be the first infected that arrived there.

Influenza animus, clearly.

[peachakean]

Ooh, I hadn't even thought of that but yeah, they would have not just a couple weeks of observations but YEARS of data detailing exactly what this thing was supposed to do and what it's made of.

Well, it could be he people in the trial lived far away from where it was made. New thing being tested at a big research hospital in a major city, maybe only needs to be administered every couple weeks? He could have been driving hours each time, but if he lived closer to Mercy that is the hospital he would immediately end up in when it started going sour. They may have even been able to contact the original hospital when it started spreading, it was just way too late by then.

Hydravirus? Many heads and all that?

[zarla]

THIS IS INTERESTING
i hadn't thought about it from this angle :O

[peachakean]

I'M HERE TO HELP

Viral Vector is my new favorite theory

We dreamed of creating the world's best viral vector

and we succeeded....