Ah, it’s just hysterical drek anyway. How many outbreaks of "VITAS 4" have the news media ragged on about over the last decade? Three or four that I can remember, and none of them turned out to be the great apocalyptic pandemic. One round was unpleasant—that new strain of meningitis that cacked a dozen school-kids in Chicago back in 2045—but the rest were just non-starters like nuevomycin-resistant strains of herpes and syphilis. No scare as long as you took basic fragging precautions. It only makes sense; throw enough antibiotics and wonder drugs at bugs and all you’re doing is selecting for tougher and more resistant bugs. Isn’t that how evolution and natural selection work in the first place?