A small percentage of the population, most under the age of twenty, were labeled as Immunes, people who were not affected by the Flare. The rate of infection was sky-rocketing, so that quarantining the infection was impossible for the Coalition to handle.Īs a result of the outbreak, WICKED was formed to find a cure for the dangerous disease. The virus had spread throughout the globe, affecting city safe areas, and infecting the majority of the population. Because the virus was airborne, the infection rate was reaching at global levels. The mutation rapidly increased the mortality rate of uninfected humans. The Flare was unstable and mutated, resulting in turning anyone who was in contact with the virus into cannibalistic, savage beings. However, after Chancellor John Michael approved the systematic release of the disease in various heavily-populated cities across the globe, its true effects soon became apparent. McVoy believed that the disease worked quickly and painlessly to shut down the brain of its victim and that the infection rate would slowly weaken as the virus spreads to different hosts, eventually stopping altogether. The Flare was discovered by Katie McVoy, a scientist of the Post-Flares Coalition after she researched the biological weapons that AMRIID had in containment. Fearing war and civil unrest, the Coalition searched for a means of population control that would eliminate large numbers of people quickly and as humanely as possible.
After the Sun Flares, the Post-Flares Coalition conducted a six-month survey and came to conclude that only 70 percent of the remaining population would have enough resources for living.
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