Emmanuel Prikas
Jul 22, 2017 · 1 min read

Science Narrations

#1:

Herpes virus enters nerve endings at your lips & travels to nerve cell bodies, laying dormant until you’re stressed, perhaps as one might be on a 1st date. It then replicates, travels back down & spreads, leaving cold sores in its wake. Rabies does the same, but replicates with haste & fervour, free from the constraints of having to rely on a stressful encounter at all! Hearing the news, people began to feel terrible, but not enough to deter them from making any substantive behavioural changes. The end.

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