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| - Upon infection the host organism developed a fever and soon fell unconscious. As the virus progressed it concentrated in the victim's neck, where it "hatched" through the skin and became airborne. At this stage the virus was approximately .5 mm, but before long it reached nearly a third of a meter, and could eventually reach a meter if not destroyed.
- The macrovirus is a Trekverse organism that injects or sprays host bodies with virus-laced slime. Infected individuals grow lethargic, pass out, and churn more bugs out of their necks until they die from dehydration. Voyager's EMH developed a cure. The macrovirus begins life microscopically inside a host body. By absorbing growth hormones from infected hosts, it grows bigger until it emerges from the host into the macroscopic world. Usually, it is visible and audible at this stage. More detail can be found here.
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| - Upon infection the host organism developed a fever and soon fell unconscious. As the virus progressed it concentrated in the victim's neck, where it "hatched" through the skin and became airborne. At this stage the virus was approximately .5 mm, but before long it reached nearly a third of a meter, and could eventually reach a meter if not destroyed. The Doctor was able to develop an antigen for the virus, but was at first unable to distribute it by himself. Fortunately, Captain Janeway and Neelix had been away on a diplomatic mission when the virus originally attacked the ship; Neelix was infected while he and Janeway were trying to determine what had happened, but Janeway escaped infection long enough to make contact with The Doctor, giving him a suitable test for his antigen. Although their original plan was to release the antigen via the ship's environmental systems, when the Tak Tak attacked Voyager to prevent the spread of the virus, causing damage to the ship's power systems, Janeway had to improvise, creating a holodeck simulation to lure the virus into one place by providing it with a new source of apparent hosts. With the virus contained in one area, Janeway threw an antigen bomb into the holodeck, destroying the virus. (VOY: "Macrocosm") When Voyager was split into multiple timelines by a temporal anomaly, the Chakotay of 2377 and the Janeway of 2371 encountered a macrovirus in the corridor in one of the timeframes, although they were able to evade the virus long enough to retreat to another timeframe where the virus couldn't reach them. (VOY: "Shattered")
- The macrovirus is a Trekverse organism that injects or sprays host bodies with virus-laced slime. Infected individuals grow lethargic, pass out, and churn more bugs out of their necks until they die from dehydration. Voyager's EMH developed a cure. The macrovirus begins life microscopically inside a host body. By absorbing growth hormones from infected hosts, it grows bigger until it emerges from the host into the macroscopic world. Usually, it is visible and audible at this stage. More detail can be found here. The aforementioned cure will stop the infection in a host body. An airborne macrovirus, sometimes called a bug, can be destroyed by an energy blast, killed by a breach in its outer shell (often caused by a pointy object or fast projectile), or by the cure. Of course, if it is too small for that, there is a problem. The macrovirus has three observed instincts: to seek new hosts to infect, to consolidate existing hosts, and to struggle (slightly) if attacked.
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