As soon as I asked this question, I already knew the answer.
Other species will be affected as much as ours. Which meant that they might feel fine right now, but a while later, a wave of pandemics would sweep over the region.
Not so soon that the Oracles could already predict it, but in a few months…
We had to think about this, too.
But my first idea—penicillin—wasn't as great on second thought.
Penicillin was a famous drug—the first antibiotic and an almost magical cure at the time it was created.
It was made from a strain of mold named Penicillium notatum, which naturally produced this chemical to kill surrounding bacteria and protect itself.
Humans have learned that if they let more of this mold grow in a sterile and controlled environment, they can then filter the mold out and distill the penicillin into something actually usable.
