A.
An
engineered Ebola virus with a highly augmented replication speed inside
Thermobacter. And it only starts to replicate after a high temperature
shock. It could have been stored like that for who knows how long, then
all those people just getting their morning kickstarter wake it up.
Within a few minutes, it infects their white blood cells and liver
cells, knocking out the body’s defence and detox mechanisms. Within a
few more minutes, the body induces its own destruction and dies a
horrible death. I’d call it ingenious if it weren’t so damned morbid. If
whoever made it would have focused their efforts on something that
could be beneficial instead, they would probably be working in their own
state-funded lab, not in some garage somewhere. The problem is that
this will be very hard to contain - not everyone drank their coffee on
the spot as soon as they bought it and this thing can propagate through
blood and coughs, spreading it to those who don’t even like coffee. At least we've got containment teams doing their best to stop it spreading too far.. How
the infected Thermobacter got past security sequencing, I can’t say. I
will get a report of where the coffee (and tea, might as well check all hot drinks) came from shortly, maybe that will
elucidate things.
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