Biltong relatively mild concentration of coriander oil (1.6%). In the two strains that were not effectively killed, "Bacillus cereus" and "Enterococcus faecalis", the coriander oil reduced their growth significantly. The need for food preservation in the new colony was pressing. Building up herds of livestock took a long time, but with game in abundance in South Africa, traditional methods were called upon to preserve the meat of large African animals such as the eland in a warm climate. Iceboxes and refrigerators had not been invented yet. Biltong as it is today evolved from the dried meat carried by the wagon-travelling Voortrekkers,
The Cured treated and cured of the virus. The remaining 25% have proven resistant to the cure. The two groups are defined categorically as the Cured and the Resistant. The disease began five years earlier, and some of the Cured were in a feral state for nearly that long while Ireland was in a long-term national emergency. Many people in the general populace fear that keeping the Resistant alive could easily lead to another outbreak, and there is a considerable amount of civil unrest by the Irish citizenry. Senan, a young Irish man of about 25, is introduced as a Cured patient