The first problem is something called inflammation. You've all experienced inflammation when you get a cut and it gets warm and swollen. This happens because your blood white blood cells are rushing to the scene to kill any viruses in the area. Here, a White Blood Cell does his best Tommy Lee Jones impression to call his fellows to hunt the Fugitive Virus. But, what if the "area" infected is in fact your whole blood stream because a virus was injected into your blood?

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