Lazarus virus

The  was a genetically engineered infectious agent that behaved 'like a prion on steroids' created by the Cabal to turn abnormals into mindless brutes that attacked humans before subsequently dying from the degenerative brain disease. The Cabal's agenda was to use this virus to cause normal humans to become more aware of abnormals and to fear them, to turn against them and see them as the enemy that needed to be put down / killed out of "safety concerns" for the well-being of the general public.

In a small test run, it was released by an unmanned drone as an aerosolized pathogen in the Yukon of northern Canada near Mount Logan. After release, the virus particles dispersed itself by following the upper airstream; pulling it north through the Yukon and over into Alaska. Roy was among the first abnormals to be affected by it. At ground zero, John Druitt found metal fragments of the dispersal device that was dropped. In the pile of scrap remains he brought back to the Old City Sanctuary was a single intact microvial containing a pure sample of the agent. Unfortunately while Druitt was unaffected by exposure to the pathogen, he unintentionally carried the pathogen on his clothing into the Old City Sanctuary, infecting Bigfoot.

In order to cure the disease, Helen and Dr. James Watson figured out that the source blood is the 'key' required to achieve a large enough immune response which sets the team off in search of where Gregory Magnus hid the vial in one of the most inaccessible places on the planet: in the lost city of Bhalasaam in the Indian Himalayas.

According to all of Ashley Magnus's sources, 3 days later a much larger dispersal was set to detonate; "a big bang that will blanket the entire planet". In order to stop the supposed second dispersal of the viral agent, Henry Foss and Ashley tried to infiltrate a local Cabal facility located across the river just outside of New City to retrieve shut down codes to prevent the launch. Unfortunately, this turned out to be a trap. The second launch was a ploy to pressure the Sanctuary into getting the hidden vial of source blood and getting a team member to visit one of their facilities. Henry was experimented on by a Cabal Doctor trying to permanently change him into his HAP form, and Ashley was converted into a spy against her will in order to steal the source blood vial from inside the Sanctuary.

Between Dr. Helen Magnus and Nikola Tesla, the Sanctuary was eventually able to develop a cure for the virus within a few weeks and then spent another few weeks disseminating and administering it to affected abnormals around the world. The entire process from creating a cure to stemming the outbreak took a total of 6 weeks to complete.