WHITE  PLAGUE
White Plague:  The phrase "White Plague" was originally coined for  Tuberculosis, but was also the title of a Frank Herbert novel about a molecular biologist who goes insane over the IRA bombing of his family and creates a virus that kills only females.  The intent of White Plague is simply a highly contagious virus that could kill off a significant percent of the world's population.  The threat with GE towards this concept would involve taking a vector like the common cold or most any other easily communicable disease and combining it with a virulent disease such as ebola or certain strains of strep. (remember the flesh eating virus? that's the one.)  Basically, It's one bad mutha-

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