Unconsensual
Banned
[FONT="]Basic premises, inspired by reading The Stand and the thread Airborne HIV.[/FONT]
[FONT="]It is with morbid curiosity that I attempt my first TL. Note that my biological knowledge is based on a grade 12 biology course and I would love input on the plausibility of the scenario.
No HIV can't kill the world, but it can create a massive divide.
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[FONT="]Taken from the number of AIDs and HIV infected people in the world the chances are great that it would start in sub-Saharan Africa, simply math.
http://www.worldhunger.org/articles/04/images/AIDS_Map_Adults1.gif
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Introduction
[FONT="] Little would be known of patient zero, perhaps he/she was already infected with a strain that happened to mutate, perhaps he/she was hit by a bit of UV just at the wrong area, or perhaps he/she was a chain-smoking-alcoholic-drug-abusing-coal-and-uranium-mining-toxic-derelict-scavenging-hazardous-material-disposing-tanning-salon-frequenting-inbred-primate-loving-person-with-a-sexual-attraction-for-mutation.
For all purposes we will refer to patient zero as a he.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Origin[/FONT][FONT="]
Regardless of the origins the origin was almost certainly sub-Saharan Africa. In which country who knows?
Patient zero continued his life as always, paying no attention to the misquote bite a minute ago. Life was hard in Sub-Saharan Africa, but it was hard for everyone and one can only be happy for the small things. Patient zero considered moving to the city, maybe he could find a job and help support his family. But jobs are hard to come by, and if no jobs were available he would have wasted months and what precious little he had left for nothing.
No, he decided he couldn't do that to his family. Perhaps he could weave broom sticks, a job usually reserved for women, when he goes to sleep. The idea wasn't the most attractive one, but it was safe and this safety appealed to the man who knew little of his next meal.
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[FONT="]Somewhere in Africa.[/FONT][FONT="]
14 Months later
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[FONT="]It was the most minuscule of all things biological, just a simple section of DNA 8 blocks long, but within this section contained the concentration trigger that will cause the production of signals to the others within the body. The concentration has finally reached the threshold, and the virus started to manipulate the host cell, producing signal proteins. The process was slow at first, just a few hundred proteins was all the cell could muster before it exhausted all resources and had to wait. Most of the proteins became trapped in the local cell structures, some were mistaken as debris but a macrophage and digested, in the end only a few dozen managed to make it to a blood vessel, and even then it took 40 minutes before the first protein found an infected cell. The infected cell, upon receiving the message made a copy for itself and started making signal proteins, and soon these cells were joined by many more who received the protein sending a crescendo of messages into the body. The message was clear and simple, time to change.[/FONT]
[FONT="]It is with morbid curiosity that I attempt my first TL. Note that my biological knowledge is based on a grade 12 biology course and I would love input on the plausibility of the scenario.
No HIV can't kill the world, but it can create a massive divide.
[/FONT]
[FONT="]Taken from the number of AIDs and HIV infected people in the world the chances are great that it would start in sub-Saharan Africa, simply math.
http://www.worldhunger.org/articles/04/images/AIDS_Map_Adults1.gif
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Introduction
[FONT="] Little would be known of patient zero, perhaps he/she was already infected with a strain that happened to mutate, perhaps he/she was hit by a bit of UV just at the wrong area, or perhaps he/she was a chain-smoking-alcoholic-drug-abusing-coal-and-uranium-mining-toxic-derelict-scavenging-hazardous-material-disposing-tanning-salon-frequenting-inbred-primate-loving-person-with-a-sexual-attraction-for-mutation.
For all purposes we will refer to patient zero as a he.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Origin[/FONT][FONT="]
Regardless of the origins the origin was almost certainly sub-Saharan Africa. In which country who knows?
Patient zero continued his life as always, paying no attention to the misquote bite a minute ago. Life was hard in Sub-Saharan Africa, but it was hard for everyone and one can only be happy for the small things. Patient zero considered moving to the city, maybe he could find a job and help support his family. But jobs are hard to come by, and if no jobs were available he would have wasted months and what precious little he had left for nothing.
No, he decided he couldn't do that to his family. Perhaps he could weave broom sticks, a job usually reserved for women, when he goes to sleep. The idea wasn't the most attractive one, but it was safe and this safety appealed to the man who knew little of his next meal.
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[FONT="]Somewhere in Africa.[/FONT][FONT="]
14 Months later
[/FONT]
[FONT="]It was the most minuscule of all things biological, just a simple section of DNA 8 blocks long, but within this section contained the concentration trigger that will cause the production of signals to the others within the body. The concentration has finally reached the threshold, and the virus started to manipulate the host cell, producing signal proteins. The process was slow at first, just a few hundred proteins was all the cell could muster before it exhausted all resources and had to wait. Most of the proteins became trapped in the local cell structures, some were mistaken as debris but a macrophage and digested, in the end only a few dozen managed to make it to a blood vessel, and even then it took 40 minutes before the first protein found an infected cell. The infected cell, upon receiving the message made a copy for itself and started making signal proteins, and soon these cells were joined by many more who received the protein sending a crescendo of messages into the body. The message was clear and simple, time to change.[/FONT]
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