By Muffy Borgeron
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| Professor Alan Guinness |
An outbreak of alligator skin has spread throughout the
Heights in the past week, and residents are advised to get vaccinated.
Alligator skin was a relatively benign disease that
sprang up in the 70’s when New Romford University professor, Alan Guinness, was
attempting to regenerate body parts in humans using reptilian DNA. His experiments backfired when he was turned
into an anthropomorphic alligator.
Initially, he ravaged NRU campus before being stopped by the
Tarantula-Man and Dr. Amazing. Dubbed
“The Gator,” Guinness was able to regain control of his feral instincts but not
his human form. But his rampage spread
the disease alligator skin, which slowly transforms a human’s skin into rough
alligator-type skin but doesn’t transform them into rampaging lizard monsters.
“I thought I had eradicated this disease years ago,” said
Professor Alan Guinness, who still teaches biology at NRU. “Dr. Amazing and I created a vaccine for it,
and it was seemingly gone by the 90’s.
It became just another vaccine for children to get along with measles,
mumps, and dragon pox. But then people
thought they contributed to autism, and now look where we are.
“Turning into an alligator is what you get for not
vaccinating your children.”
Indeed, most of the cases have been reported in children
under the age of twelve. Health
officials are trying to treat the disease as best they can but say that the
best defense is prevention. Guinness and
his students have been creating new batches of the vaccine non-stop all week.
