A man-made hellfire had dispelled much of the plague hanging over Harlem...
Nearly half of the more than two thousand infected people had already received targeted antibodies.
Only the remaining patients, whose conditions were more complicated, required doctors to provide targeted treatment...
The plague created by the Witch could easily mutate to target a person's specific condition.
For example, the first symptom in most infected people was a lung infection, since the air quality these days was genuinely worrying...
But in people who were very healthy and fit, the symptoms varied wildly...
It was only because Dr. Yinsen and Norman Osborn had joined forces to develop a virus detector and rapidly put it to practical use that they hadn't missed a single infected person.
Without Dr. Yinsen and Norman Osborn—and perhaps the several female biologists from The Basement—this evacuation could never have been carried out so decisively and quickly.
Normally, after cases appeared, targeted testing reagents would be developed.
Otherwise, even if the infected went to the hospital of their own accord, they still wouldn't receive targeted treatment.
The doctors simply couldn't determine in a short time whether someone's illness was caused by the virus.
Most importantly, the lack of a targeted treatment plan might cost a patient their life...
At a time like that, hospitals would be overwhelmed by a panicked rush of patients!
Everyone would worry that they might be "sick," and all kinds of half-true rumors would start spreading...
Panic-driven visits to the hospital wouldn't just place immense pressure on doctors; they would also risk cross-infection.
That was the danger of a plague: it didn't just destroy a person physically.
It could also use fear to destroy a community's resolve, even splitting people apart...
A plague brought more than the harm caused by the virus. If it