That’s just wild. The one silver lining to T2 is that I’m not shocked by anything anymore. It’s still outrageous, but the surprise is gone.

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    More the weakness to UV would be common for lab strains among other traits

    What do you mean by this? This doesn’t make any sense. Lab strains mutate just like wild type. If you expose a viral to mutagenic factors (ie UV) it creates mutations that 99.9% of the time cause the virus to be non viable.

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      Meaning it’s preferable to pick strains weak to UV because UV is common for sterilization tech especially air and it’s likely a lab strain wouldn’t need to mutate such a trait just hitch a ride out of the facility end of shift. That said the animal suspected is the nocturnal bat so.

      Like something for all of you to think about. The room the bats are in does not have UV internally, it would hurt the bats. Bats have claws and teeth. Those level 4 suits aren’t made of mythril