The question is not whether the avian flu may mutate to become deadly to humans, but when? (WHO / World Health Organization.) In the Alpine valleys, a lone man walks ahead, accompanied by an L2S carrying robot, seeking refuge from the virus-ravaged lowlands. January offers no illusions: three quarters of humanity have perished in the epidemic. Only scattered homes remain, and with them, a fragile hope—almost a legend—of a hidden laboratory that may have found the cure to this new plague.
