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Virus grenade

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Virus grenades are germ warfare grenades, and are the pinnacle of lethal anti-personnel technology due to being both completely fatal in effect and being able to be tailored for the species to be targeted (although this is somewhat theoretical, as it requires an inimical chemical/nerve agent to have already been created). Able to defeat common respirators and anti-gas protection, the only way to survive a virus strike is to be in a separate, completely sealed environment. Highly contagious, the effects of the virus grenade can spread far beyond its initial detonation zone. Although the most complex strains can be designed to become inert after a certain period of time, there is an extremely small chance that it can go dormant only to break out again in the future[1], or even mutate the other way and become stable in the environment, creating a death-zone.[2]

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