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because of the smog and air pollution meant that the CDC and Malaysian health authorities were dealing with something quite different from the U.S. version of the virus. Blood samples had been flown back to Atlanta and Fort Detrick in Maryland for scientists and doctors to analyze. It was still confirmed that the Nazi virus was a strain of the flu, plague and rabies, however, that fact that several people had lung infections from the air pollution tended to add another element to the equation, one that the scientists still couldn’t figure out.
    Finally a few days later someone figured things out. There was actually a simple answer. Many of the people infected in the Asian countries were already affected by the fires in Indonesia and had developed respiratory problems or even pneumonia as a result. A large percentage of these would develop pneumococcal pneumonia, a bacterial strain of pneumonia that affected the lungs and could spread to other parts of the body, including the blood. Many of the cases could also result in Bacteremia, an infection of the blood that lead to low blood pressure and damage to vital organs like the kidneys and the heart. Some infected people would also become infected with meningitis, which affected the brain and spinal cord. When the doctors and scientists analyzed all these factors they quickly realized that they could be dealing with as many as five or six different diseases in some infectees instead of the original three from the actual Nazi Super Virus. This made analysis and the cure and prevention almost impossible. Many doubted that a singular vaccine could tackle all the infections with any degree of effectiveness. Mathews thanked his lucky stars that he only had to worry about the original virus in the U.S., although some sort of mutation had occurred in a number of the infectees. During the New York infections, once an infected person was killed, he stayed dead. No so in many of the Wilmington and Malaysia cases. The fact that many people in Asia were already ill with respiratory infections also made it easier for the super virus to take hold quicker than normal and some infectees started showing the zombie stage in as little as one to two days after infection. Since this group was already in a weaken stage to start with, death or the zombie stage came more rapidly after exposure. The Global Rapid Response Teams in Asia had also determined that once someone who was infected, the incubation period for the disease to take hold was only about one to two days. Many of the symptoms of a normal infection by air never materialized in a bitten person. They just suddenly felt sick and looked pale and would die, only to become reanimated a short time later. It was becoming harder and harder for health officials to determine who was dying of natural causes versus who had been a victim of a zombie bite.
     

 
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    THE VIRUS SPREADS
    Reports were now coming in from a few European countries reporting isolated incidents of the virus, however, authorities had been quick to respond and the infectees were quickly detained or killed. Asia still appeared to be the hot spot at the moment and Malaysia and the city of Kuala Lumpur had the most activity. The city continued to be on lockdown and after several days people began to venture outside despite warnings from the local authorities. Groups of the infected were spotted at some of the shopping malls around the city and at the moment China Town seemed to be overrun by them. Police and military responded almost by the minute to attacks around the city and the authorities had no place left to relocate infectees as most detention centers were either filled or had turned into areas of mass carnage. Police had been instructed to shoot confirmed infectees, with shots to the head appearing to be the only reliable way to ensure that once they went down, they stayed down. The CDC Global Rapid Response Teams continued inoculating citizens,