Mon Jan 07, 2013 7:00 pm by Dr. Levi Rose
"Well, mass vaccinations are expensive and time consuming, but once the vaccine is prepared it'll be easy to distribute the cocktail via the holonet. Then you establish a buffer zone starting in systems the virus can't have reached by that time, then work your way inward with the vaccinations. Any supposed 'cure' wouldn't be able to reverse the affects of the virus once it's taken hold, however. Rotted flesh is still rotted and you don't want to know what the brain looks like after this gets into it, and there's no reversing either of those. But if you developed a pathogen, say, a predator virus that eats the cell which causes this rabies and shuts down- that is, killed- the infected for good... Released it into the atmosphere, not the water supply since they don't drink... 'course the hardest bit would be to make the pathogen otherwise harmless to all sentient life... And bioweaponry is banned even among the Sith."
Levi bent the flask back again.
"You'd need to find someone with a background in medical and bio-engineering, from a top notch school Core World school, willing to otherwise throw his or her career away to break every wartime treaty in the galaxy. Otherwise, yeah, your options would be living in space or mobilizing the entire sector- man, woman, child and in-between. If you're looking to ride it out in style, my parents have a pretty good star yacht."