America: Type Beta

&nbsp What this article, and all following articles related to this subject, postulates upon is the perceivably altered North America due to an infectous and highly communicable pathogen that has resulted in over 82% of the continent's population developing Diabetes mellitus type 2, otherwise more commonly known as Type II Diabetes. What this timeline is meant to represent is the gradual effects, both minor and major in divergence, that can occur from a singular and solarity entity. In this case: Where Type II Diabetes becomes a way of life for the majority.

The Point of Divergence would be an ambigous one, centrally fixed within the first few months of 1963, where an enterovirus, mutated from the Coxsackie B virus, originaties from the Northeastern area of the United States. Several relativitly small outbreaks occur, then by the end of the year, half of the population of United States is affected. The virus, dubbed Coxsackie B5, spreads continously for over six years until an eradicative solution emerges in June 5, 1969; discovered by Dr. Heath Gorges, member of a research group headed by Luther Leonidas Terry, the ninth and incumbent Surgeon General at the time.