Contramort (C-virus)

Contramort, also known as the C-Virus or suaxine, is the brand name of a member of the genetic engineering class of "wonder drugs" of the 2010s. It is designed to be used alongside traditional antidepressants in order to reduce the risk of suicide. Its generic name is suaxine, which is somewhat more commonly used thanks to the company that made it dropping the patent after the Millbrae Massacre. Technically speaking Contramort is a serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor, but its exact mechanism in reducing the risk of suicide is not fully understood.
Contramort has a viral component and was developed with Crispr/Cas9 gene editing technology, and is derived from CASandra. Unlike CASandra, its components do not denature and the virus is able to infect other cells, meaning that one treatment will last forever. However, like CASandra, there is a "kill switch" available that will wipe out the virus completely over the course of a few days... in theory. This kill switch is known as Suaxvir.
Being derived from CASandra means that it also cleaves sugars off red blood cells. This was deemed a net positive side effect when suaxine was being developed.
Technically speaking the term Contramort should only be used when referring to the drug as it is intended to be used, but nobody except the legal team of the company that patented Contramort gives a shit. The terms Contramort, suaxine, and C-virus are used interchangeably in practice, although scientific literature prefers the generic name.
A politician in Los Caidos famously mispronounced it as "suxine" and like the whole Bush nuke-you-lure thing this pronunciation has started becoming more common as more and more people forget the joke.

Parent Technologies

• CASandra
• Hemocleave

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