Pokérus - spreading to newly hatched Pokemon?

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

I can back that up. Truly fansinating things, for they are more akin to genetic manufactures than any truly living thing. It is just that they get their means of production from other sources, ranging from microbes to mammals like us. Influenza is a common example of a virus, one that undergoes several novel changes in its coding in order to be more effective, so to speak.
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Ahhhh, Influenza. Damn you, H1N1, that we still don't know exactly where you actually came from.

Anyway, this new discovery will be quite helpful on my Pokerus-epidemic.