In early 2014 there was a virus that devastated the human population world wide.  In the first months of the outbreak many people became infected with this man-altered virus.  Millions died and more would soon follow their fate.  However, in just a few short months big pharm developed a “cure” - This /cure/ not only was meant to stop the spreading virus but was a “cure all!” 

 

However due to lack of testing the /cure/ would soon be found to be even more deadly!.  It not only “cured” the virus, (current and others), most cases of cancer, even simple skin issues, stuffy noses and leaky asses…. It also “cured” DEATH! Bringing those who had taken the /cure/ back to life /kinda/.

 

The government had made the /cure/mandatory in most countries which lead the outbreak of undead to spread like wild fire.  A new variant of the deadly virus now evolved from a mixture of the man made virus + the /cure/ that had altered the DNA in humans.  A “superbug” if you may! 

 

There would be people who refused the /cure/ rebelling against their own government.  Having to live in hiding.  However if caught they too would be forced the /cure/.  Some were able to go uncaught, living in hiding until there was no real government left in place to hide from.  As long as they were not bitten, or exchanged bodily fluids with an infected person they would be fine.  But was anyone really fine? This only would mean when they died they would not come back as the “undead”.

 

By winter of 2014 over half the world's population had “been infected” With a short incubation period; they would soon parish and come back as what one may call “zombies”?  By 2015 the world we once knew was no more.  In the coming years more people perished, and more /walkers/ awakened. With more of them than us.

 

The symptoms would start with a fever, cough, body chills much like your common flu. However soon their organs would start to shut down. Whites of their eyes and skin yellowing. They would start going crazy, losing their mind (going rabid). Blood would seep from all their orifices, and they would lose control of their bodily and function.   It would take only 72 hours from what was once a healthy person to take their last living breath - what would come next if not stopped would be a low functioning, flesh hungry “walker” 

 

Once the formally dead were reanimated into a zombie, there would be little to nothing left of their former self - replaced with the want/need to feed off the flesh of the living.  They move slowly, but they move with purpose!  They know what they want and they go for it at all costs.  Their own flesh decaying and rotting off their bones.  The virus now running through whatever is left in them, making them highly contagious. Much like a rabid animals, one bite, should it break the skin, is enough to pass on the infection.  

 

For years there was no real /cure/ but in 2018 a few scientists who spent years working had come up with something.  It wouldn't keep you from becoming infected as most were infected from the former /cure/ this would only stop the spread once bitten /IF/ caught early enough.  Should a person be bitten they had 36 hours to get help before it was too late - even then it was still a 50/50 odds they would survive.