It's clear that the author had a strong understanding of their anomaly, which could make it convincing and memorable. However, the article is too much of a standard disease piece, and nothing really happens.
The writing is competent, but the order of elements sometimes creates confusion. Most notably, the list of stages is withheld until halfway through the article. The fourth experiment is also a peculiar tease that hints at an interesting event, but its payoff is delayed by another experiment, so now I'm mentally skimming. That's a result of a clumsily distributed article.
Certain moments, including specific pieces of description and the final experiment, shine through with some promise of clever writing, but the general vibe is blandness. It doesn't incite very many emotions, opting at best for sparse hints of "it could be you!" fearmongering. Some of the time is wasted, too, like in the first few experiments. Saying "we exposed a raw chicken breast with the disease and it got infected" doesn't characterize the anomaly or the RPC universe when stuff like this can happen in a normal lab. It's just boring, and writers are permitted to skip the boring.
Strangely, what does get skipped is the containment breach. An announcement of mass death, without further substance, is just that. This would've been an opportune time for an operation or camera log, or at least an exploration of the calamity that unfolded, but it was applied with the same vigor as the infection of a lab rat.
While this article has hints of cleverness, the end product is poorly realized. 1/5