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Radius

”. . .outbreak on a global scale, following the accidental spread of E-2010 following an incident involving a pornographic website. Victim 117 was infected by direct eye contact with an escaped carrier, then proceeded to transmit the agent to one of the employees through one of several possible vector routes. That employee, Victim 129, was at the time on a live internet feed with approximately 400+ customers, during which the camera was showing a close-up view of her face. Infection was immediate. When the victim turned back to the camera, the high-resolution image was transmitted for 0.75 seconds to every currently viewing customer, after which time the cameraman himself was affected and dropped the camera. Within that short period of time, an estimated 60% of the viewers were affected by the agent, mostly among those viewers using high resolution (1024P and higher) monitors, resulting in outbreaks in approximately seventeen different cities around the world. Casualty reports are still coming in. . .”

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