The Marbug Virus

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Paul was just a regular kid from London that lived with his parents before he had to go to Mortingham Boarding Academy. He was exceptional student at his school and he did very well in his studies. Paul had many friends at his school he had a best friend called James, they were the best of friends. His parents Elizabeth and George Young were very educated people they worked for the Parliament of England as scientists for the Ministry of Health. Their jobs were very dangerous since they worked with very unstable viruses so they can find cures to the world’s leading viruses and diseases. Paul’s parents always try to be there for him but their jobs made it hard to do so. Paul went to Colchester Royal Secondary School the best in London. Paul was always best in all his studies. Paul’s parents worked in a lab at the Ministry of Health’s laboratories and they were working on this very lethal virus called Marbug. The Marbug virus was the most lethal virus it was only recently that Elizabeth and George were the top scientist to find a cure to …show more content…
When Paul parents first injected the virus into a rat they saw how the virus sickened the rat. It died in just forty-eight hours from damage of internal organs. George and Elizabeth tested on rats to see how they would react and one day they inject ted a rat with the virus but this time they had a hypothesis for a cure. Their hypothesis was to use nano-bots to kill infected tissue and kill the virus in its early stages. They did that on multiple rats but they noticed that it changed the rats it made them silver. They had a network of rats and they noticed very odd behaviors they were aggressive and instead of making them healthy again it created its own virus. The virus wanted to infect others and make the silver. They tried to control which was easy but the effects of these infected mice was

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