Deanna Nichols was researching a potential cure for the antidote’s effects, when her superiors determined there was a small population of non-treated, but uninfected humans in a maximum security prison complex north of the Arctic Circle. Children were born with a multitude of problems, not least of which was their inability to learn, think progressively or continue the cultural progress enjoyed by the human race up to that time. Quarantine zones were established to enable the human race to continue, but only when the survivors bore children was it learned the antidote itself had teratogenic effects. Long before an antidote could be distributed, millions died. However, they failed to recognize how quickly the agent would travel into their own population. The premise is that a global war was finally ended when the losing side released a biological agent over the enemy. “Human Instincts” by Ioana Visan is an apocalyptic novella unlike any other I’ve read.
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