IWACA SPOTLIGHT AUTHOR
REST IN PEACE
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skipping ahead; a little background first."
Special Agent Lancaster clicked a button and a black and white photograph filled the screen next to her.
"During the Second World War the Nazis started investigating viruses," she told them, "and one division you will not find in the history books is Ewig. They were attempting to make the elite of the master race immortal. Their solution which came the closest was the 8977 virus. Unfortunately for them it has two major drawbacks: only twenty percent of humans can actually catch it; it has significant side effects."
Another photograph appeared of what looked like a very ill person. Sarah was reminded of concentration camp inmates, only this person was wearing a Nazi uniform. The man was just staring ahead and his skin all but hung on his body. There were also blotches on his face and hands.
"The Nazis were originally overjoyed when they discovered their master race had a much higher percentage of successful infection than those races they deemed inferior. They used volunteers from their own forces to test the virus once they had worked out what they considered the problems on captives. These are some of the results."
More pictures flashed up on the screen in succession. One appeared to be missing fingers, as if they had just dropped off.
"Zombies," Sarah heard more than one person mutter.
"What the scientists hadn't done was wait long enough. 8977 when introduced to a living human being infects their entire system and then goes dormant. When that individual dies it activates, healing the injury with astonishing cell regeneration and reanimating that person as if nothing has happened. This is one of the volunteers after initial reanimation."
Another picture popped up and it was clearly the same man as the first zombie they had been shown. In Sarah's professional opinion (and no she wasn't quite a doctor yet, but she was close) he appeared perfectly healthy.