[center][h1][i]t i m e l i n e[/i] [sup][sup][sup][sup][sub][color=lightgray]major headlines from 06/02/17 — 12/24/17[/color][/sub][/sup][/sup][/sup][/sup][/h1][/center][right][indent][sup][color=gray]Prom Sweetheart Miranda Shifflett Found Dead at Midwood High; Police Baffled [color=lightgray]─[/color] [b][color=white]06/02/17[/color][/b] Deadly Virus Surfaces in Brooklyn, Attributed to Shifflett Girl's Death [color=lightgray]─[/color] [b][color=white]06/05/17[/color][/b] 'Barracuda Virus' Death Toll Reaches Double-digits, Hosptials Cracking Down on Fatal Illness [color=lightgray]─[/color] [b][color=white]06/09/17[/color][/b] Fatal Virus Takes Its 23[sup]rd[/sup] Life; Support Group for Mourning Families Established [color=lightgray]─[/color] [b][color=white]06/11/17[/color][/b] Panicked Parents Withdraw Children From School [color=lightgray]─[/color] [b][color=white]06/12/17[/color][/b] Schools Closed as Spread of the Barracuda Virus Continues to Grow [color=lightgray]─[/color] [b][color=white]06/13/17[/color][/b] Residents Scared for Their Lives Begin to Leave the Country [color=lightgray]─[/color] [b][color=white]06/16/17[/color][/b] Emergency Quarantine Wards Erected in Local Hospitals, Staff Under Pressure [color=lightgray]─[/color] [b][color=white]06/19/17[/color][/b] Quarantine Wards Packed, 'Quarantine Zone' Tents Being Put Up Across the City [color=lightgray]─[/color] [b][color=white]06/22/17[/color][/b] "We Are Researching a Cure", Says CDC Representative [color=lightgray]─[/color] [b][color=white]06/25/17[/color][/b] 50[sup]th[/sup] Life Taken by Barracuda Virus; Research Barely Making Progress [color=lightgray]─[/color] [b][color=white]06/26/17[/color][/b] Barracuda Virus Begins to Spread Rapidly; 20 Die in One Week [color=lightgray]─[/color] [b][color=white]07/03/17[/color][/b] Independence Day Celebrations Cancelled, Patriot Groups in Protest [color=lightgray]─[/color] [b][color=white]07/04/17[/color][/b] Meet the Brave Citizens Keeping Their Stores Open Amidst the Virus [color=lightgray]─[/color] [b][color=white]07/11/17[/color][/b] Death Toll Reaches 150 Mark as the City Is Plagued With Despair [color=lightgray]─[/color] [b][color=white]07/17/17[/color][/b] Government Issues Out Face Masks and Hand Sanitizer, Stresses Importance of Hygiene [color=lightgray]─[/color] [b][color=white]07/24/17[/color][/b] 240 Deaths and Counting, CDC Astounded by Exponential Spread of the Virus [color=lightgray]─[/color] [b][color=white]08/02/17[/color][/b] 1 Month Survivor of the Barracuda Virus Identified - Could There Be an Immunity Gene? [color=lightgray]─[/color] [b][color=white]08/17/17[/color][/b] 375 Lives Lost as People Lose Hope for the Future [color=lightgray]─[/color] [b][color=white]08/19/17[/color][/b] 'The Barracuda Survivor' Dies in Freak Accident [color=lightgray]─[/color] [b][color=white]09/03/17[/color][/b] CDC Faces Backlash for Having Made Very Little Progress on Cure Research [color=lightgray]─[/color] [b][color=white]09/28/17[/color][/b] Remembering the Significant Figures Lost to the Barracuda Virus [color=lightgray]─[/color] [b][color=white]09/28/17[/color][/b] "We're People, Not Statistics on a Graph", Says Man on His Death Bed [color=lightgray]─[/color] [b][color=white]10/05/17[/color][/b] Two Weeks Without a Trace of the Barracuda Virus - Could It Finally Be Over? [color=lightgray]─[/color] [b][color=white]10/19/17[/color][/b] Stores Across Brooklyn Slowly Resume Regular Schedules [color=lightgray]─[/color] [b][color=white]10/26/17[/color][/b] City Declared 'Safe From the Barracuda Virus' After Having Lost 432 Lives [color=lightgray]─[/color] [b][color=white]11/09/17[/color][/b] Schools to Reopen January 2[sup]nd[/sup]; Summer Break Shortened and Extra Holidays Removed [color=lightgray]─[/color] [b][color=white]11/10/17[/color][/b][/color][/sup][/indent][/right]