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A Figure Like That<br />

spread, but this was so minute Matilda<br />

concluded, statistically, that it was something<br />

that she could quite easily work with.<br />

Regardless, Dr Green knew the speed of the<br />

update of the infection was essential for the<br />

whole thing to work as, even if someone had not<br />

worked out what had happened, the diagnose<br />

process in the late twenty-first century was<br />

quick, with the improvement of artificial<br />

intelligence, molecular processing and such in<br />

the last fifty years meaning that it was extremely<br />

likely that they would quickly isolate and cure<br />

the infection before virus had achiever it’s goal<br />

even if Matilda, herself, had no idea how they<br />

would do this. And so, she had made sure that<br />

the pathogen that she had created had a faster<br />

transmission rate than the common cold through<br />

intense research on osmotic functions, genetics,<br />

immunology, and membranes. Her synthetic<br />

disease worked much like an autoimmune<br />

syndrome, with the individuals own immune<br />

causing the real symptoms and these were<br />

instigated by the length of individual cell’s<br />

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