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Post by jaysmith on Sept 28, 2009 20:47:13 GMT -5
A global pandemic of a condition labeled Acute Immuno-necrosis began to spread across southeast Asia following the typhoon and tsunami of fall 2008. AIN begins with flu-like symptoms followed within days by symptoms similar to the Marberg virus, where the body converts all tissue to liquid over a few weeks while the patient dies a slow, agonizing death. What was unique about PAIN was that it attacked select cells throughout the body and mutated them into new organisms that multiplied and spread, consuming tissue through the body. The body essentially ate itself. Early cases showed that the organism could not survive in open air or without living tissue. Like Marberg, AIN is contagious and spread by contact with infected tissue. In the regions decimated by storms and isolated from civilization, AIN wiped out entire villages before help arrived, but few precautions prevented aid workers from being exposed.
Over the next six months, PAIN mutated into at least six different strains, one allegedly airborne. Patients in the second strain (mostly western and central India and coastal China) presented signs of aggression and dementia as the organism focused an attack on the host’s brain, mutating into and then replacing cells in the brain, over-stimulating some areas such as those governing aggression and basic impulses while consuming others (memory, advanced motor function). The effect was to convert human beings into feral animals acting only on basic bodily needs.
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