Surviving the Pandemic

260 of the 800 residents em were lost to the plague that summer. After two months of no other deaths, they officially declared the plague over. The experiment almost broke them though, witnessing that much death. But their precautions not only stopped the plague from spreading northward, but also made it easier on themselves. In recent years, curious researchers have begun to wonder if there was another reason for so many of the villager's survival. They looked deeper inside their descendants geanetic code. And what they found was ground breaking.