7 Birth and Death
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MEGAN STRAIGHTENED up from her position leaning over the body. It was September 22, 2060. The body was that of Arnold Schmitt, a former patient in the terminal stages of Metaflu, who had just died in the middle of the procedure to induce the Vanguard genetic transfers. This was the third failure, all of which seemed to be due to the same cause.
Of the three patients, all of them had been terminally ill with the Metavirus, and the nanobots had initially seemed to cause the patients to regain ground in their struggle to survive the virus. Each of the patients had about an 83% or greater intracellular infestation rate, and the ability to extract or inactivate viral inclusions in the cells was a slow process. The nanobots could repair the structural damage to the
