Well, let's assume she meets Mithra and he's captivated by all these ideas she keeps starting to have before she wanders off to do something else in the middle of them, and hey now he's curious and frustrated, better provide a mutated form of the parasite, or some new organism that chews on it to make it less effective, or MAD SCIENCE CAN FIX THIS, is what I mean. It's the start of a beautiful romance.