6 July 2014
Time: 2045
Location: Apartment 0, Selangor, Malaysia
It's finally happened. Damn you hollywood, fucking Resident Evil...How I've hated that game. Yet, I'm living it now.
This is the first entry into my logbook, some might call it a diary, it might work, but for what it's worth, I hope that if I were to succumb to this outbreak, these entries will help any survivors.
My name is James Tan, just months ago, I was an immunologist working in a brand new laboratory with leading scientists across the world. Now, I'm fighting for survival in my HQ, designated Apartment 0, waiting to die.
The movies got it wrong. There was no mass outbreak, no hysteria. No "going crazy" within minutes or even hours of being bitten. No exotic bio-terrorism genesis.
We were drafted by the UN in an international effort to contain "The Problem". Rabies started making a comeback in the States, fucking raccoons. Nature's idea of a joke, I'm sure, Raccoon City and all. Somebody created a vaccine that helped immunise household pets from the disease. Then, some fucktard redneck decided to inject himself and his family with it. The vaccine had not made it to human trials. They got sick. Flu-like symptoms, fever, fatigue. Evidently they didn't believe in staying in bed. 2 weeks later, a neighbour visited and was eaten alive. The police were called in, the family was subdued and investigations made. Long story short, nobody figured out what happened until weeks after, when various people around the country proved that foolish people evidently had the same ideas independently.
There was no Patient Zero. The lengthy incubation period caused it to spread globally before anybody realised what was happening. Apparently, it also spread through sex, making its rounds like a nasty bout of STD that made gonorrhea look like the common cold.
When we realised what was going on, the WHO issued a statement to promote a worldwide curfew. Teams of scientists were recruited to work on the problem. We figured out what was going on: rabies was a neurological virus. It takes over the brain of an animal and make it aggressive. It affected humans differently, but this vaccine-strain was apparently causing the same aggression in humans, as well as a strange craving for cannibalism.
We studied cases. My lab worked on identifying the genetic aspects of the infection. A team in China worked on the infection model. India tried to vaccinate against the vaccine.
China discovered it is a blood-borne disease, primarily spread by bite, unsurprisingly, considering the source of the problem. You need to get the virus into your bloodstream, to facillitate infection. Reminds me of HIV. Sex doesn't actually spread it, but fine tears in the tissue can cause infection, explaining the primary outbreak. We in Malaysia found that the virus, being a vaccine-strain and thereby less lethal compared to the original rabies virus, integrated itself into the genome of the human host like a retrovirus and caused changes at the genetic level, explaining the state of the bodies and the mindless aggression. Obviously the genius who designed this took genes from a retrovirus, probably HIV, to create this rabies vaccine. He's a fucking twat. I hope he got eaten.
Cell culture showed the virus to have an affinity to neurons and muscle cells. Typical...not only are they aggressive, but they retain control of their muscles so they can direct their actions.
India found...we never did hear from India. The country disintegrated in December 2013, when the people refused to follow the governmental order of curfew. It was only a matter of time before Pakistan and Bangladesh fell, and from there on, other neighbours. The American continent was already hopelessly contaminated. Latin America fought for a long time, but rampant drug use helped spread the disease. Thanks to Egypt, it spread to Africa. Thanks to Turkey, it spread into Europe.
Research moved to Australia and New Zealand, the last bastions of Problem-freeness. Strict airport security in Australia helped saved it. New Zealand somehow succumbed to it, nobody knows why or how.
We got hit by the Problem in March 2014. In 2 months, 90% of the country was dead or Problematic. They don't discriminate, if you're alive, they eat you. If you got infected and escaped, you'll join their ranks.
There was no Patient Zero. The lengthy incubation period caused it to spread globally before anybody realised what was happening. Apparently, it also spread through sex, making its rounds like a nasty bout of STD that made gonorrhea look like the common cold.
When we realised what was going on, the WHO issued a statement to promote a worldwide curfew. Teams of scientists were recruited to work on the problem. We figured out what was going on: rabies was a neurological virus. It takes over the brain of an animal and make it aggressive. It affected humans differently, but this vaccine-strain was apparently causing the same aggression in humans, as well as a strange craving for cannibalism.
We studied cases. My lab worked on identifying the genetic aspects of the infection. A team in China worked on the infection model. India tried to vaccinate against the vaccine.
China discovered it is a blood-borne disease, primarily spread by bite, unsurprisingly, considering the source of the problem. You need to get the virus into your bloodstream, to facillitate infection. Reminds me of HIV. Sex doesn't actually spread it, but fine tears in the tissue can cause infection, explaining the primary outbreak. We in Malaysia found that the virus, being a vaccine-strain and thereby less lethal compared to the original rabies virus, integrated itself into the genome of the human host like a retrovirus and caused changes at the genetic level, explaining the state of the bodies and the mindless aggression. Obviously the genius who designed this took genes from a retrovirus, probably HIV, to create this rabies vaccine. He's a fucking twat. I hope he got eaten.
Cell culture showed the virus to have an affinity to neurons and muscle cells. Typical...not only are they aggressive, but they retain control of their muscles so they can direct their actions.
India found...we never did hear from India. The country disintegrated in December 2013, when the people refused to follow the governmental order of curfew. It was only a matter of time before Pakistan and Bangladesh fell, and from there on, other neighbours. The American continent was already hopelessly contaminated. Latin America fought for a long time, but rampant drug use helped spread the disease. Thanks to Egypt, it spread to Africa. Thanks to Turkey, it spread into Europe.
Research moved to Australia and New Zealand, the last bastions of Problem-freeness. Strict airport security in Australia helped saved it. New Zealand somehow succumbed to it, nobody knows why or how.
We got hit by the Problem in March 2014. In 2 months, 90% of the country was dead or Problematic. They don't discriminate, if you're alive, they eat you. If you got infected and escaped, you'll join their ranks.
I've not seen a Problem-free human in the last 2 weeks. Phone calls were made but unanswered. Autralia beckons but I have no fucking idea how to get there.
I'm going to sleep, tomorrow will be another day in survival. At least I managed to note the origins of the Problem. With luck, that information would be helpful.
In case nobody's realised it yet, the Problem isn't minor, the Problem is zombies.
End log.
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