Myxy, the myxomatosis virus, responsible for nearly wiping out populations of feral European rabbits in the 50's and used in Australia on the wild populations there. When we finally identified it, it all felt so obvious. We worked with our research staff to isolate the proteins in the samples we had. On the 4th day the hysteria had set in through the media, with reports playing all day. Levoski complained the sudden explosion in the breadth of the case was giving him headaches. Our patient continued to deteriorate, all treatments basically rendered ineffective against the mystery ailment. The news ticker scrolled along all day as each one was identified, each reported as a missing person nearly a year or more before, the most recent being 6 months. In densely populated regions all over the country rabbits, mice, rats, and a handful of other species had turned up out of nowhere showing signs of the virus, the same vile words carved into different parts of their bodies. I agreed to assist the doctor in further analysis of the blood work, as he was convinced it was a virus of some sort and needed my labs resources. Meanwhile their condition continued to decline and he was unable to communicate with us as to his identity, so we had no family history or any way to find his relatives. He had been screened for all the usual diseases and viruses and kept coming up with false positives. One the second day Levoski came to my office with a blood workup on the patient. The hospital usually tries to make patients more comfortable by assigning a doctor of similar species, many sick herbivores find themselves unduly stressed in the care of a predator. When he was stabilized he was moved to a new ward under the direct care of Doctor Levoski a middle aged hare and a specialist in rodent and herbivore diagnostic medicine. It was assumed at the time he was a kidnap victim of a gang, or perhaps an underground sex trafficking operation, dumped when he became too sick to manage. doctor on call scheduled tests on the tumorous lumps and started him on a course of antibiotics to help clear his lungs of infection. He had acute conjunctivitis in both eyes rendering him near blind, and his breathing was painful and labored, his chest made a horrible rattling noise on each breath. His body was riddled with tumors and cysts, and his fur was falling out with barely a touch from the nurses. He was malnourished and skinny, with a weeping wound freshly cut into his chest, 'FUCK VERMIN' it read. On the first day a young buck rabbit staggered into the emergency room and collapsed. Helping Hands was one of the first facilities hit, but it wasn't until the 3rd day that the story made its way all over the international news and it all started to fall into place what was really happening. Over the last five days an extraordinary series of events took place, the likes of which I nor my colleagues would ever have anticipated.