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Theory	Citations	Notes
Maya's ability is a personification of the bubonic plague, or the Black Death.	None	+ In the episode commentary for The Kindness of Strangers, Tim Kring says that Maya emits "a plague ... that makes people sick". The Black Death was a devastating plague in the 14th and 15th century that killed off 50% of the European population. + The fact that Maya cries black tears could be an allusion to the Black Death. + The curandera says that what Maya has inside her is evil. The Black Death was once thought to be caused by "miasma," an evil vapor. • Maya's ability could literally be the Black Death, except with drastically different symptoms.
Maya's power is to drain the energy or the life out of someones body, and all the bad parts her body rejects, resulting in the black tears.	None	none
Maya's power is a rapid release of the Shanti virus	None	+ The narration for Maya y Alejandro indicates that mutations usually are formed to benefit, and the bad mutations still bring about benefits. + Bob worries what would happen if the Shanti Virus crossed over into the general population. + Very little is known about what the Shanti virus does, and the effect that Maya's power produces has never been seen before. - Symptoms exhibited by Haitian in Lizards and Molly Walker in The Hard Part do not resemble Maya's contagion; e.g., black tears are absent from Shanti Virus. - Maya's ability does not effect evolved humans exclusively.  :+ In the Dark Future, the Shanti virus killed humans as well as evolved humans.
Maya's power will kill the man haunting Molly Walker.	None.	+ In Lizards the curandera said what Maya has inside her could "kill the devil." - This bit of foreshadowing may actually be referring to Sylar, who has recently joined up with Maya and Alejandro while in a depowered and relatively helpless state. - Or it could simply mean that Maya's ability is strong enough and evil enough to kill even the most powerful of beings.
Maya's power is the ability to host a deadly virus.	" But, as a contrast, there are mutations that could harm the positive evolution of a species. Like the ability to host a deadly virus." Activating Evolution	+ In the text from Activating Evolution displayed in Maya y Alejandro Chandra has theorized this ability, if it's true she may be able to resist to any kind of viral disease, but became a carrier and can possible release all the diseases that she has came in contact at once. This is why her ability is so lethal. + If this is true and Maya learns to control her ability, she may be immune to the shanti virus. She may also then hold the cure for any new variations to the virus.