As the fighting wages on, A. baumannii only gets more powerful. It feasts on the wounded land and fallen soldiers for nourishment, while garnering the weaponry of its fallen comrades (both those of its own Gram Negative legion and others) to power its wrath and evade the harmful blows of its enemies. It has already acquired nearly 40 tools of warfare from its fellow Lords of Pestilence, including Pseudomonas, Salmonella, and Escherichia, and is likely continuing to collect more as it wanders the battlefields. It is fueled by the war, and if it is not taken out soon, it will become too widespread to annihilate.
Unfortunately, few Soma residents have the power to conquer it. It’s only been in the last 30 years that any common Apothecaries have been able to penetrate its gelatinous pelt. More recently, the younger healers have begun developing more creative approaches to sidestep the monster’s defenses and take it down. With any luck, their collective efforts will put an end to the fearsome predator’s devastating drain on the land.