Every week the Zombie Cookbook brings you evidence of the impending zombie-apocalypse. This week, in our quest to herald the impeding zombie-apocalypse, we bring you news of a deadly virus spreading in the North-west of America. America, fuck yeah!
Apparently a deadly strain of infection is spreading among animals and people in the northwestern United States and the Canadian province of British Columbia, researchers reported on Thursday.
Usually only infecting people with already compromised immune systems, or people who are just too slow to get away, this new virus is genetically different. "The novel strain of the virus is worrisome because it appears to be a threat to otherwise healthy people," a lead scientist of Duke University in North Carolina states.
"Our findings suggest further expansion into neighboring regions is likely to occur. Our main goal now is to increase disease awareness in the region." The new strain is unusually deadly, with a mortality rate of about a 100 percent among the 21 cases analyzed States-side, they said.
"Between 2003 and 2006, the outbreak expanded into neighboring mainland British Columbia and then further over into Washington and Oregon from 2005 to 2009. Based on this historical trajectory of expansion, the outbreak may continue to expand into the neighboring region of Northern California, and possibly further."
The infection can cause symptoms in people and animals within the first two weeks or more after exposure. They include an everlasting cough, sharp chest pains, shortness of breath, headaches, fever, nighttime sweating and weight loss. Victims behave erratically, and will often try to infect others, even after they have been immobilized.
It has also turned up in cats, dogs, an alpaca and a sheep. Oh, and of course in Brett Michaels - the rock of love.
Origin story found at Fox News: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,591387,00.html
Apparently a deadly strain of infection is spreading among animals and people in the northwestern United States and the Canadian province of British Columbia, researchers reported on Thursday.
Usually only infecting people with already compromised immune systems, or people who are just too slow to get away, this new virus is genetically different. "The novel strain of the virus is worrisome because it appears to be a threat to otherwise healthy people," a lead scientist of Duke University in North Carolina states.
"Our findings suggest further expansion into neighboring regions is likely to occur. Our main goal now is to increase disease awareness in the region." The new strain is unusually deadly, with a mortality rate of about a 100 percent among the 21 cases analyzed States-side, they said.
"Between 2003 and 2006, the outbreak expanded into neighboring mainland British Columbia and then further over into Washington and Oregon from 2005 to 2009. Based on this historical trajectory of expansion, the outbreak may continue to expand into the neighboring region of Northern California, and possibly further."
The infection can cause symptoms in people and animals within the first two weeks or more after exposure. They include an everlasting cough, sharp chest pains, shortness of breath, headaches, fever, nighttime sweating and weight loss. Victims behave erratically, and will often try to infect others, even after they have been immobilized.
It has also turned up in cats, dogs, an alpaca and a sheep. Oh, and of course in Brett Michaels - the rock of love.
Origin story found at Fox News: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,591387,00.html
