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This would make for an interesting scifi plot. A global virus spreads that has multiple parts and people must limit their contact with specific people or risk a
by jotux 10y ago
This would make for an interesting scifi plot. A global virus spreads that has multiple parts and people must limit their contact with specific people or risk acquiring components that activate the parts of the virus they carry.
- cmurf 10y agohttp://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/The_Vengeance_Factor_(episode) http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/The_Vengeance_Factor_(epi...
- jcoffland 10y agoThat episode of STNG is about a virus which targets a specific DNA. > In sickbay, Crusher reveals to Riker that Volnoth was killed by a microvirus. The interesting part was that the microvirus was specifically designed for a certain strain of DNA in Acamarians, approximately one in a million. Riker notes that this is unnatural, which leads Crusher to presume that Volnoth was murdered.
- emilga 10y agoIn one of Greg Egan's short stories there is a religious maniac who engineers a deadly STD so as to permit only one lifetime sexual partner, lest the virus be activated and kill the fornicator. (If I remember the plot correctly. It's in the "Axiomatic" short story collection.)