Chapter 3

I found out about it the same way everyone else in the world did, on the TV news. It started in central Africa. At first the reports indicated that an outbreak of the Ebola Virus was taking place and was spreading rapidly. Like most of the world, I was at first not concerned. The world was used to all sorts of bad crap happening in central Africa, and this was just one more example. Then things got more complicated, the virus started appearing in other places around the world, a lot of other places.

The UN and WHO team that had been sent in to investigate the original outbreak issued a very troubling report before they went off the air, never to be heard from again. Apparently, a well financed terrorist group had hired some former USSR bio-war scientists to create a devils’ brew of Ebola, rabies, aids, flu, and God knows what else, to infect the unbelievers of the world. It was designed to be spread by an exchange of body fluid, but the most dangerous characteristic of the virus was the fact that an infected showed no symptoms for about five days. Then they went mad, attacking anybody they could. With modern transportation, and the five day incubation period, this meant that an infected individual could be anywhere in the world before he became symptomatic.

The dumb asses who created the virus made two major mistakes; the vaccine they created to protect the faithful did not work, and when one of them, who had been given the vaccine, was bitten by a test subject and showed no symptoms, they thought they were golden. Five days later they found out that they were wrong, by then it was too late for them, and the world.