It was a pandemic that occured in 2028. Some believed it was an act of biological warfare. No one could prove it, though. Society collapsed within months. The pathogen was airborne, so the leading governments attempted to eradicate exposure to what few remained by... by detonating multiple antimatter reactors. The radiation essentially killed off the virus, but... lives were lost, and the nuclear winter that followed killed even more.
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It was a pandemic that occured in 2028. Some believed it was an act of biological warfare. No one could prove it, though. Society collapsed within months. The pathogen was airborne, so the leading governments attempted to eradicate exposure to what few remained by... by detonating multiple antimatter reactors. The radiation essentially killed off the virus, but... lives were lost, and the nuclear winter that followed killed even more.
In the end... over six billion people died.