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Chapter 73 - What is known about the virus

Not only Nara was pleasantly surprised, but also all the people around her exclaimed, at that moment everyone approached Airon without saying a word, they were all excited to know more about the vaccine. 

Nara thought silently about everything she had discovered in this place, as a simple girl who just wants to survive in the best way, she was attentive to all the little details and when she heard about a vaccine, she did not know how to react. 

Seeing the excited faces of these people around Candace and him, Airon reached out his hand to push these people away, turned around and said, "I ask you to control yourselves and listen to my words carefully." 

After everyone calmed down, Airon said, "Listen, this vaccine is nowhere near what you imagine. It is not yet known exactly all that this vaccine can accomplish, so now is not the time to get excited." 

When everyone heard Airon's words, they all showed expressions of disappointment, only Nara, who was standing to the side, looked thoughtful.   

Unlike everyone else, she understood how lethal this virus was and how uncontrollable it was, very little to say nothing was known about what was happening outside this prison, so now the future would be in the hands of the researchers here. 

"While this vaccine could be just the beginning, there are many things to consider and I would appreciate everyone waiting in due time until an official announcement is made."

Airon looked at all the young men in front of him, held the vest to his body and said, "For now, I will ask my people to show you around later, but remember to select a job suited to your abilities." 

"I don't want you to cause trouble for our people and the rules cannot be broken. Ranks must be respected to maintain stability within this place. But before that think well if it's a good idea to join our group, so in the meantime I must take whatever precautions are necessary, I hope you all understand me!" 

Looking at Daryl who was standing to the side, he instructed him to proceed and ask them apart who wanted to join the group and who would not be sent back to the cells. After making all this clear, he walked with Candace to the lab.   

At the same time, Daryl decided to take all these energetic young people around the prison to help carry the huge batches of food and resources into the prison.

Today, it had been more than seventy days since the virus exploded completely around the world, with no system or authority on the streets they must all fend for themselves. Today, even Edwin Jenner doubts whether anyone still struggles to find a cure for this virus. 

At this moment, inside a large place where the lab will be built so that the fight for a definitive cure would continue, Airon and the others were having a small meeting. 

"From everything we know, the Wildfire virus attacks only humans and this one activates when someone dies. In this way, we can explain that we are all contaminated by the virus in general words. The bite of the infected only accelerates this process, turning us into one more in a span of hours." 

"After my last contact with a researcher in France, they made it clear that they were close to finding a cure for the virus. But communication was lost and we couldn't maintain contact. I guess we can only assume they ran out of power or something else happened." 

"I always think there will come a day when we will beat the virus.... Slowly contact was lost with labs around the world and the one in France was the last one to hold out before we lost communication. At least we were able to get a lot of valuable information from the researchers in France who were far ahead of us in research." 

"The virus in France is stronger, faster and fiercer. It only takes a few seconds for a person to become a walker, something truly terrifying." 

In the large space, Edwin Janner slowly explained to Airon all that was known about the virus. Some things admittedly Airon already knew, but that was only superficial and nothing technical like the knowledge of these scientists. 

Airon listened to all this in silence as he walked around the place. "So, are there any side effects from starting to use that vaccine that you say you have almost ready? Even if it's effective, we don't have the resources to manufacture it on a large scale. If we are sure that this vaccine is safe, I will open a shelter in the city of Atlanta."

Hearing this question, Edwin Janner fell silent. It is true that it has been able to create a vaccine to eliminate the virus in the human body and this will prevent the transformation into a walker once it dies for natural reasons. However, it is not known if there will be side effects from long-term use of this vaccine in humans.

"It's too early to know about that, although the vaccine may be manufactured, it has yet to be studied further if it is affected in any way to the human body!" Candace smiled sadly, all this time and they have nothing for sure. 

Hearing these words, Airon frowned, he could not risk him and his people on a vaccine that is not known to have consequences later on, but still some will have to risk taking it. 

After confirming a lot of information about this vaccine, Airon began to chat about the lab renovations. Along with the crops, the lab would be one of the most important places where a lot of manpower would be put to work. 

All of these plans were still in process, but needed to be attended to as soon as possible. Looking at Candace and the other researchers, "Truly everyone appreciates your efforts, you must not press your research and you can go easy. We will safeguard you from any danger." 

Seeing that there was nothing more to say, Edwin pointed out, "We could do human testing as soon as possible, this vaccine is very likely not to have many side effects. So, it's just a matter of someone deciding to take the vaccine to start seeing results." 

Knowing that what was needed were human test subjects, Airon thought about it for a moment and said, "If we prefer to take things slowly, it will be good to find them test subjects, I'll see about finding criminals or bad people to at least serve as test subjects." 

"That's right..." 

Some people murmured with a bit of guilty thoughts, but Edwin stepped forward and said, "If the vaccine is as we pointed out, there will be nothing to worry about." 

"Very well then." Leaving the lab or the place where the lab would be built, Airon walked quickly to his room. There were some things he wanted to develop alone, so the next few days would be busy days.