The first stages of the plague the astronauts brought back from Enceladus were terrifying enough - it started as a sticky, brown-grey paste that slowly accumulated between your fingers and toes, but then it would suddenly explode, spreading to cover the whole body in a thick mucus.
As horrifying as that was, the second stage was even worse, as the mucus slowly hardened into a crisp, papery coating as though the victim had been encased in a cocoon.
The first efforts to reverse the process surgically revealed the victims within at various stages of dissolution, their bodies apparently crumbling into a slurry. It was widely conceded that the Enceladus Syndrome was fatal.
Until the first cocoons started to open of their own volition...
That was when we realised: it wasn't a plague.
It was an invasion.
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Sources:
https://plus.google.com/113223446359562794050/posts?hl=en
http://community.babycenter.com/post/a28729853/update_tell_me_what_kind_of_rash_this_is_pics?cpg=3
http://www.slu.edu/~swierkoszje/review/bactlist.htm
http://www.monarchlab.org/Lab/Research/topics/Enemies/Default.aspx
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