"HIV."
It was also a contagious disease, with similar modes of transmission.
Mario Yuno was surprised when he learned the purpose of the medication, but it wasn't too unexpected.
Kiara and he had both witnessed Molly Palmer's behavior before, and given her reckless actions, it wasn't strange she would contract such a contagious disease.
In the Domestic Region, people still panicked at the mention of AIDS, and it would be more than a decade before attitudes would improve. However, discrimination had never disappeared.
Overseas was a bit better; as medical knowledge became widespread, everyone's understanding of how the disease spread reduced discrimination, though it did not vanish. It was normal for there to be psychological pressure at this stage.
"Fox Cat, when you set up a branch abroad in the future, will employees possibly discriminate?" Kiara asked Fox Cat.
As a boss, she must consider the greater good; her own ideas could not replace all the employees' sentiments.
