In the blink of an eye, two months had passed.
On November 17th of the New Human Era, the first viable batch of the Martian virus vaccine was successfully synthesized. This marked humanity's definitive victory over the alien pathogen!
The research teams discovered that exposing the human immune system to specific, heavily irradiated strains of the inactivated virus could induce a mild, permanent immune response. For a civilization that was now constantly on guard, this baseline immunity was all they needed to prevent another catastrophic outbreak.
The biological teams remained deeply fascinated by the Martian lifeforms. They concluded that these microorganisms occupied a bizarre evolutionary gray area between viruses and bacteria. It challenged terrestrial biological paradigms and sparked entirely new avenues of scientific theory. Their research would continue indefinitely.
