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TerraNovaVirus

The early effects of the virus.

In the episode "What Remains", Elisabeth Shannon, Jim Shannon, Malcolm Wallace and Nathaniel Taylor discover an outbreak of a mysterious and fatal virus. It was accidentally created by Dr. Douglas Joslyn at Outpost 3, while he was experimenting with genes in order to try to cure his own illness. The virus has three stages.

First, the infected experience short term memory loss. Anything from forgetting people, to forgetting events.

The second stage involves the infected believe they are somewhere in their past, for example, Elisabeth thinks she is in University, during a relationship with Malcolm during this stage.

The final stage can set in from 36 hours, in which the infected goes through a complete mental breakdown.

It was discovered by Elisabeth that the virus could be cured by the Common Cold when she realised that Jim, who had a cold at the time, had not experienced any symptoms, whilst Malcolm had been, even though they were exposed to the virus at the same time.

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