The Point of Divergence would be an ambiguous one, centrally fixed within the first few of 1903, where an enterovirus, mutated from the Coxsackie B virus, originates from the Northeastern area of the United States. Several relatively small outbreaks occur, then by the end of the year, half of the population of United States is affected. The virus, dubbed Coxsackie B5, spreads continuously for over sixty years until an eradicative solution emerges in June 5, 1969; discovered by Dr. Heath Gorges, member of a research group headed by Luther Leonidas Terry, the ninth and incumbent Surgeon General at the time.