![]() The Marburg virus is 50 per cent fatal, Ebola 90 per cent. Soon enough, it became evident to doctors and biogeneticists in the West that they were dealing with 2 viruses so powerful that they had nothing at hand to combat them with. Till the Marburg and the Ebola viruses exploded upon an unsuspecting world a decade and a half ago. When the AIDS virus began its slow burn from Central Africa and girdled the globe, it was considered the ultimate killing machine: like all viruses, neither living nor dead, probably soulless (all organised religions would have problems categorising them), capable of sleeping with motors idling for years, horrendously fecund, 100 per cent fatal. ![]() In that sense, viruses are on the same footing as God: unseeable, capricious, feral and almost omnipotent. TWO things that can make humanity break out in a cold sweat: things too small to see and things too big to comprehend. ![]()
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