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Wicked strains of primeval virus

Worming through the host's physique

Regenerative adaptation

Evolving with rapidity

An archaic lack of hygiene, or mingling with the dead

What engendered these rogue mutations

Of cellular lethality?

Resistance to antibiotics

Bacterium laying humans to waste

Fever becomes hemorrhagic

Copious blood leaks internally

Pestis of yersinia, championed by vermin's path

Diseased corpses catapulted over the city's walls

Choking back the bloody phlegm

Cadaveric stench pervades

Avenues of the departed's homes

Churches rife with carcass

Their congregations lining the funereal carts

...wicked strains of primeval virus