OutbreakPick a pathogen
These are the only coins Outbreak will launch, one each, first come first served. Send 0.1 SOL and yours goes live on pump.fun with 0.05 SOL of its own supply, then starts spreading itself.
The ones that got out: pandemics, epidemics and the hemorrhagic fevers.
LoosePlague $PLAGUE
Yersinia pestis, the Black Death. Still here, still treatable with antibiotics caught early.
Killed a third of Europe
Suspected pneumonic plague outbreak in Irkutsk, Siberia, October 2026
COVID-19 $COVID
SARS-CoV-2. Found in Wuhan in December 2019, worldwide within three months.
7m+ deaths recorded
LooseSpanish Flu $1918
The 1918 H1N1 influenza. Infected a third of everyone alive at the time.
1918, up to 50m deaths
LooseEbola $EBOLA
Hemorrhagic fever from central Africa, passed on through blood and bodily fluids.
Up to 90% fatal untreated
Marburg $MARBURG
Ebola's cousin, named after the German town where lab workers first caught it in 1967.
Fruit bats are the reservoir
LooseSmallpox $POX
The only human disease ever wiped out. It survives in two freezers.
Eradicated 1980
Bird Flu $H5N1
Influenza of birds, now in dairy cattle. It does not spread between people yet.
The one virologists watch
Swine Flu $H1N1
The 2009 influenza pandemic, out of Mexico and around the world in six weeks.
2009 pandemic
MERS $MERS
Camel coronavirus from the Arabian peninsula. It kills about a third of the people it infects.
~35% fatality
Mpox $MPOX
A milder relative of smallpox that went global in 2022.
Two WHO emergencies
Nipah $NIPAH
Carried by fruit bats, caught from raw date palm sap. No vaccine exists.
40-75% fatal
Lassa $LASSA
West African fever spread by rats in grain stores. Hundreds of thousands catch it a year.
Endemic in Nigeria
Hantavirus $HANTA
Breathed in from dried rodent droppings. It drowns the lungs from the inside.
No person-to-person spread
Rabies $RABIES
Travels up the nerves to the brain. Once symptoms start it is almost always fatal.
~59,000 deaths a year
Crimean-Congo $CCHF
Tick-borne hemorrhagic fever across Africa, Asia and the Balkans. No vaccine.
Up to 40% fatal
Anthrax $ANTHRAX
Spores that survive decades in soil. Posted through the mail in 2001.
Weaponised by three states
Specimen images are real electron micrographs and scientific renders from NIAID, the CDC and Wikimedia Commons, used under their licences. Full credits.