De-Evolving: Science Fiction

Yeah, Al-Qaeda is reduced to a few hundred cave apes, howling and throwing sticks at anybody who gets close to them. Great victory, right? Never mind that a few hundred mountain villages were also wiped out, the terrorist threat. is. OVER. Except we didn't really calculate on how the wind pattern would spread, and there was a key miscalculation in the lifespan of the de-evolution virus. I don't know if the fundamentalists in charge over here thought that Americans didn't evolve, unlike the Middle East, but the first reports have come in from the edges along the coast. Strange primates sighted. Towns abandoned. When it first came up, I sequenced my genome. Turns out I'm one of those with a good dose of Neanderthal--


Inspiration: "De-Evolving" by Jonathan Coulton
Story Potential: Medium
Notes: Eh, some interest in how you could cope with and set up to survive de-evolution--but really, what can this do that hasn't been done better already?