Vivus Mortuus

> The **Vivus Mortuus**, or **Reanimation Virus** is a variation of the Rabies virus, and and the infectious virus featured in *What Remains*. It has several different mutations and spread to epidemic proportions in earth. A vaccine for the virus was eventually developed, but it appeared that the vaccine only made the infection worse.
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## Clinical Features

### Symptoms

Nausea, weakness or discomfort, fever, headache, fainting.

## Nature

Vivus Mortuus is a rabies variation, which turns a human into a mindless beast.

### Symptoms

Upon being bitten by an infected, a person may feel the following symptoms.

* Swelling
* Weakness
* Discomfort
* Fever
* Headache
* Itching sensation
* Dehydration
* Nausea
* Fainting

### Transmission

The virus is typically transmitted via a bite through the exchange of saliva, or blood through scratches. Usually common in a skinner.

## Origins

During an experiment commissioned in NovaLabs by an unknown worker, 2 doctors were tasked with creating a cure for the rabies virus. The 2 doctors tried many times, but failed miserably on every test.

#### The test

A person who has the rabies virus would be tied, and sent into a room assisted by armed men. The person would be sitted down, and a doctor would enter the room wearing a protection suit. The doctor would inject the person with the vaccine, then 2-3 doctors sitting in the other room would document the person/patient by writing on notes, counting the time the vaccine would effect the patient and have vital screens in their room.

the tapes showed that there were 20 experiments, as the last tape was named "*VVM Experiment 20 tape 13*" (found in Louiseville, Mississippi), in most tapes the person would be killed by the vaccine, or have it not work, however in the last tape the vaccine did not kill the patient and the patient was begging to return to itself, and was taken back to it's room to be tested for rabies. A few hours later, Alice Thomas, one of the doctors, sitting in their office heard a scream from the pod rooms, She and the other doctor, her husband, Samuel Thomas went to check on the patients, and found the room destroyed, blood was on the floor, pods were flipped and lights flickered, upon further investigation the doctors found a more vile version of a rabies patient, and ran away.

It was rumored that the rabies patient were most likely able to escape from the building, and began infection, the first documented infected in the USA was a local farmer from Virginia, since many zombies were found inside the lab, it was most likely that the zombies were separated, and began infecting elsewhere.

## History

The presumed patient zero of the virus was Dr. Alice Thomas, and her husband, as their kid, Alex Thomas was with his baby sitter, Sarah Cross and the 2 did not report seeing the parents return home, making it most likely to have been killed and or bitten by zombies, and lost their way. However, the first person to be infected, was a local farmer in Butler's farm in virginia, USA, however, no investigation was done on the case, and the infection was only rumored. Scott Blackwell had witnessed the farmer, but never reported it. It was most likely that again, the infected escaped the farm and began infection somehow.

Many survivors began noticing that zombies were evolving, as some of them would look and act different, some were smarter, some bigger, some stronger and some weaker.