A few months after the shrinking happened, strides in the medical field had been made to better understand where the virus came from, and how exactly it acted on the body.
Trials with human subjects were held, at first with volunteers, eager to get back to their normal size, brought along by concerned family members, then later, captured tinies, who nobody had claimed ...
It was the latter group that underwent the harshest and most rigoureuse studies, often times getting dissected alive, torn limb from limb to be used as samples for various tests ...
All the tinies could do was hope a solution was near, else they all be doomed to live dissection.