Post by Nate Reynolds on Sept 24, 2011 14:14:09 GMT -5
For years, people have theorised and calculated how the creation of zombies will become a reality. There were theories of biological warfare gone wrong, underground German research facilities left over from the Second World War, nuclear waste polluting whole towns with mutating radioactivity and even ideas that spanned from traditional roots where the idea of voodoo men and spells play a part. But when it came to the real zombie apocalypse, it was none of these theories; it was an illness. Starting as something very much like a virus or stomach bug, victims suffered sickness, dizziness and a complete lack of energy, so the doctors could hardly be blamed for underestimating the potency of this sickness. Assuming that these symptoms were merely part of the annual flu epidemic, doctors prescribed painkillers, penicillin, anything they thought would cure the symptoms at hand; this was their first mistake. The virus was slow-acting, feigning the symptoms of flu while it attacked the body part by part; this gave the virus time to adapt and to change. It developed a resistance to the drugs, becoming something of a super bug that followed in the steps of MRSA. By the time it became clear what this virus really was, it was far too late to work on a suitable cure.
The virus consisted of parasitic bio-organisms that travelled through the bloodstream, weakening the body’s immune system and muscle structure. It fed on the nutrients sent to muscle tissue, weakening the host body so that the immune system could be defeated. Originally, this was all the virus would do, but as drugs added protection to the host, the virus found a more vulnerable target; this is how the virus developed to move up into the brain where the parasites slowly fed and corrupted the tissue there; this resulted in a form of mental regression that left individuals with nothing of their human consciousness but basic, primal instincts such as the instinct to fight and to feed. Perhaps the most pathetic and horrifying instinct left was the urge to communicate, pulling moans and grunts from the nutrient-starved throats of the infected as their weak, emaciated legs dragged them on in search of food. Passed on like a virus or common cold, the infection spread throughout the masses before the authorities had time to contain and examine the condition; mindless humans wandered streets and fought with healthy individuals as the parasite sought to expand.
There was really no hope of survival.
The virus consisted of parasitic bio-organisms that travelled through the bloodstream, weakening the body’s immune system and muscle structure. It fed on the nutrients sent to muscle tissue, weakening the host body so that the immune system could be defeated. Originally, this was all the virus would do, but as drugs added protection to the host, the virus found a more vulnerable target; this is how the virus developed to move up into the brain where the parasites slowly fed and corrupted the tissue there; this resulted in a form of mental regression that left individuals with nothing of their human consciousness but basic, primal instincts such as the instinct to fight and to feed. Perhaps the most pathetic and horrifying instinct left was the urge to communicate, pulling moans and grunts from the nutrient-starved throats of the infected as their weak, emaciated legs dragged them on in search of food. Passed on like a virus or common cold, the infection spread throughout the masses before the authorities had time to contain and examine the condition; mindless humans wandered streets and fought with healthy individuals as the parasite sought to expand.
There was really no hope of survival.
