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In Utangaville, Africa, it took two days. In Spayerwood, Scotland, it happened overnight. In each town, the people suddenly turned into mindless, babbling creatures who thrashed about wildly, uttering weird, half-human cries, then died. Doctors and scientists were baffled as to the cause. A sudden plague, some mysterious virus? But to the members of the United Network Command for Law & Enforcement, there could be only one answer: THRUSH had a deadly new weapon for world conquest.