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Nazis toward the end of World War II. Since neither of the divers was experiencing any ill effects, the exposure must have been after they left Strauss at his office.
So far there had been six deaths in Wilmington. Strauss, the two people at the hospital that he attacked and two additional hospital aids that were exposed to the virus somewhere along the way. The CDC Rapid Response Team was still trying to locate all the people who had been in the Federal Building where Agent Taylor had left the box with the canisters. Mathews theorized that one canister had exposed at least Strauss, if not Taylor too; one may have exposed only Taylor and one was believed to have exposed the Federal Building. How the last canister was discharged was not known although examination revealed that all canisters had been discharged at some point. Fortunately there were still remnants of the virus present in two of the canisters and so scientists at the CDC were able to extract samples and begin work on analyzing the contents.
A Command Post had been set up at the Police Department and police officers and National Guard were patrolling the area, on the lookout for possible infectees. The quarantine appeared to be holding and although there were hundreds of news people now at the perimeter, access and exit was strictly controlled. The biggest worry of infectees still appeared to be the Federal Building in Wilmington. Fifty of the one hundred people who had reported in as sick had been tracked down. Twenty-five had normal illnesses not related to the virus, however, the other twenty-five were infected and relocated to detention centers. Without a cure for the virus the main question was “What do we do when these people begin to turn?” They were separated into small groups but it was just a matter of time before they began to turn on each other. The matter was brought up with the President and his National Security Council, in consultation with the CDC, and it was finally agreed that the most humane thing to do was euthanize the people as soon as it was confirmed that they were turning. No one had even come back to normal after they reached stage three of the infection, eruption of the skin with sores and oozing fluids. The next stage was the zombie stage and controlling the detainees at that point would be a problem.
Mathews also stayed in close contact with the CDC Teams in Korea and Malaysia. It now appeared that the degree of infection in Korea was minimal as most people on the Taylor flight had merely transited the Airport and were not fully infected at this point. Malaysia was another story however; the number of confirmed cases had climbed to almost 4,000, double the number from the preceding day. Reports of zombie attacks were also on the rise and the city of Kuala Lumpur was on lock down. All stores and businesses had been ordered to close for at least the next week and military troops had been moved into the city to assist the national police. One of the most serious attacks so far took place at the trendy Pavillion Kuala Lumpur Shopping Mall in the Bukit Bintang District of the city. The mall entails over 1.37 million square feet and on an average day several thousand people shop there and use the massive food court on its lower level. Ten infectees had somehow gained entry into the mall and went on an attack spree, which lasted over fifteen minutes before mall security, and police neutralized the threat. Over 75 people were attacked and bitten in this period and 10 had fled the mall before police could detain them. Another attack took place at the Petronas Twin Towers where two employees of that building suddenly went wild and started to attack fellow co-workers on the thirtieth floor. Over thirty people were infected before police and security could reach the floor of the disturbance. CDC teams were actively inoculating people although no one knew how effective the X554 vaccine was. The fact that the virus had mutated in Malaysia
So far there had been six deaths in Wilmington. Strauss, the two people at the hospital that he attacked and two additional hospital aids that were exposed to the virus somewhere along the way. The CDC Rapid Response Team was still trying to locate all the people who had been in the Federal Building where Agent Taylor had left the box with the canisters. Mathews theorized that one canister had exposed at least Strauss, if not Taylor too; one may have exposed only Taylor and one was believed to have exposed the Federal Building. How the last canister was discharged was not known although examination revealed that all canisters had been discharged at some point. Fortunately there were still remnants of the virus present in two of the canisters and so scientists at the CDC were able to extract samples and begin work on analyzing the contents.
A Command Post had been set up at the Police Department and police officers and National Guard were patrolling the area, on the lookout for possible infectees. The quarantine appeared to be holding and although there were hundreds of news people now at the perimeter, access and exit was strictly controlled. The biggest worry of infectees still appeared to be the Federal Building in Wilmington. Fifty of the one hundred people who had reported in as sick had been tracked down. Twenty-five had normal illnesses not related to the virus, however, the other twenty-five were infected and relocated to detention centers. Without a cure for the virus the main question was “What do we do when these people begin to turn?” They were separated into small groups but it was just a matter of time before they began to turn on each other. The matter was brought up with the President and his National Security Council, in consultation with the CDC, and it was finally agreed that the most humane thing to do was euthanize the people as soon as it was confirmed that they were turning. No one had even come back to normal after they reached stage three of the infection, eruption of the skin with sores and oozing fluids. The next stage was the zombie stage and controlling the detainees at that point would be a problem.
Mathews also stayed in close contact with the CDC Teams in Korea and Malaysia. It now appeared that the degree of infection in Korea was minimal as most people on the Taylor flight had merely transited the Airport and were not fully infected at this point. Malaysia was another story however; the number of confirmed cases had climbed to almost 4,000, double the number from the preceding day. Reports of zombie attacks were also on the rise and the city of Kuala Lumpur was on lock down. All stores and businesses had been ordered to close for at least the next week and military troops had been moved into the city to assist the national police. One of the most serious attacks so far took place at the trendy Pavillion Kuala Lumpur Shopping Mall in the Bukit Bintang District of the city. The mall entails over 1.37 million square feet and on an average day several thousand people shop there and use the massive food court on its lower level. Ten infectees had somehow gained entry into the mall and went on an attack spree, which lasted over fifteen minutes before mall security, and police neutralized the threat. Over 75 people were attacked and bitten in this period and 10 had fled the mall before police could detain them. Another attack took place at the Petronas Twin Towers where two employees of that building suddenly went wild and started to attack fellow co-workers on the thirtieth floor. Over thirty people were infected before police and security could reach the floor of the disturbance. CDC teams were actively inoculating people although no one knew how effective the X554 vaccine was. The fact that the virus had mutated in Malaysia
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