Talk:Lost River/@comment-27538855-20160914022450/@comment-6020917-20160914142353

The virus didn't break out from the Lost River - it was native to the general "overworld" of Subnautica. The PDA clearly states that the virus is an intrinsic part to the global ecosystem, having been present in such numbers and for so long that it has become part of the genome of almost all life.

What you're refering to is the destruction of the secondary research facility being destroyed by a mal-contained sea dragon, resulting in the disablement and damagement of the facility, releasing all the infected specimens they were creating in order to study the effects of the virus on local wildlife. it did not release the virus itself in the world - just a load of infected specimens, because the virus was already present everywhere. Remember, +130 billion creatures were already dead because of the' virus by the time the sea dragon broke out.