For this month's material, I received a stroke of good fortune. I can't claim good planning or brilliance, just dumb luck. And I'll take it.
I was looking at another topic on Wired Science, and happened to notice this post:
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/07/chicken-farm-vaccine-virus/
The gist of it is, it appears that two chicken vaccines, two benign entities that work to keep chickens healthy, have combined into something new, something that's killing chickens. It scary to think that it might not only be possible, it's real.
Well, for the purposes of my August silly disaster, it could hardly be more obvious, right? This is practically cheating. I didn't have to even come up with an idea. I just had to lift it from the pages of current science.
So, you already know what this month's prompt is:
Two vaccines have mutated and combined to produce a virus that's both deadly to humans and highly contagious. Our hero has to combat both the disease, and the ensuing panic.
