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Mangoes
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Hey there,
I've been writing an essay I need to turn in for one of my general eds and I needed to set it up so that every human is wiped out except some strange, tinfoil-hat family somewhere in some underground bunker and I decided to use some biological weapon in my story.
Unfortunately, I don't have much knowledge in biology and I'd like to know how plausible, or if it's even possible, this would be:
A man-made virus that's very infectious (it'd infect people the same way the common cold spreads), has a 100% mortality rate (I don't know if this is possible), and stays in incubation for a long period of time. The idea is that some crazy guy spreads it in some place, and it starts rapidly spreading - but since it doesn't display any symptoms for quite a while, let's say a year or two, it remains unnoticed until it becomes active, at which point every human is infected.
Is this even remotely possible?
I doubt my professor would care about the details, but if it's obviously impossible because of some reason, I'd like to consider some other method for my story.
I've been writing an essay I need to turn in for one of my general eds and I needed to set it up so that every human is wiped out except some strange, tinfoil-hat family somewhere in some underground bunker and I decided to use some biological weapon in my story.
Unfortunately, I don't have much knowledge in biology and I'd like to know how plausible, or if it's even possible, this would be:
A man-made virus that's very infectious (it'd infect people the same way the common cold spreads), has a 100% mortality rate (I don't know if this is possible), and stays in incubation for a long period of time. The idea is that some crazy guy spreads it in some place, and it starts rapidly spreading - but since it doesn't display any symptoms for quite a while, let's say a year or two, it remains unnoticed until it becomes active, at which point every human is infected.
Is this even remotely possible?
I doubt my professor would care about the details, but if it's obviously impossible because of some reason, I'd like to consider some other method for my story.