| World
                                                              War III will be
                                                              the war against
                                                              our extinction.
                                                               Christopher
                                                              Dicken, 'virus
                                                              hunter' of the
                                                              Epidemic
                                                              Intelligence
                                                              Service, joins an
                                                              emergency
                                                              Taskforce on the
                                                              order of the
                                                              President. 
                                                              Around the world,
                                                              what were thought
                                                              to be ancient junk
                                                              genes in human DNA
                                                              have been
                                                              stimulated to
                                                              assemble encoded
                                                              proteins and RNA
                                                              into an infectious
                                                              virus.  It
                                                              already has an
                                                              in-house name at
                                                              the Centers for
                                                              Disease Control:
                                                              Herod's influenza,
                                                              because it attacks
                                                              only women - and
                                                              it kills unborn
                                                              children.  It
                                                              has also been
                                                              assigned a
                                                              technical name:
                                                              SHERVA-DL3. 
                                                              That is, Scattered
                                                              Human Endogenous
                                                              retroVirus
                                                              Activation. 
                                                              Drop the R in
                                                              retro for dramatic
                                                              effect.  That
                                                              makes it SHEVA, an
                                                              apt name for a
                                                              killer. 
                                                              All other wars
                                                              in history have
                                                              been in some way
                                                              between the forces
                                                              of good and
                                                              evil.  Not
                                                              this war. 
                                                              Like a signal on
                                                              Darwin's Radio
                                                              SHEVA is
                                                              broadcasting an
                                                              extraordinary
                                                              truth about the
                                                              origin of
                                                              species. 
                                                              SHEVA confirms
                                                              Darwin's view of
                                                              'blundering. low
                                                              and horribly cruel
                                                              works of
                                                              nature'. 
                                                              There are those
                                                              who will want to
                                                              control human
                                                              destiny, and
                                                              others who will
                                                              fight them. 
                                                              Darwin's Radio:
                                                              the missing-link
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