“Think of how fast airports will have already moved this thing around the globe. Think of how fast cholera spread in Yemen, or how quickly H1N1 moved around the globe. Bat populations have been rent asunder, and now snakes…” Worldwide extinction, he thought, but did not say. “Even if this thing takes down one percent of the global population—that’s seventy million people. On par with the Spanish flu of 1918. It’d be like the entire population of the United Kingdom thrown into a mass grave.
