Strain 1.0

# **Orginal Virus, Infected**

## **Summary**

An Infected is categorized as any living being infected with any strain of the Virus. However, often times to call someone a infected is referring to those infected with Strain 1.0.

## **Strain Type and Race**

The Andromosis-Virus is caused by a micro organism that is commonly found in the Rhabdovirdae Family group of viruses. The Andromosis-Virus cells themselves feed off of other organic matter such as other healthy living cells that make up soft tissue, this seems to only last during the first contact with the host and slows down over time. This causes the death of soft tissue directly around the area of the body the Virus enters from, such as around bite marks or scratches made by infected individuals. The mass of dead tissue can take up to 1-2 hours to be visible on these areas. These markings often start red around the area and transitions to purple or bruised looking skin, slowly forming into sours and a open wound showing symptoms found in the Necrotizing fasciitis, in which case the host might still be able to be saved if removal of the infected area and tissue is possible.

The virus can be noted to have a broad range of hosts including mammals such as humans, dogs, and other large mammal such as elephants. In many hosts the virus establishes a latent long-term infection by the virus converting from its rapidly dividing lyric, (which feeds off the hosts soft tissue cells, Necrotizing them in most cases), to its slowly replicating and encysting form once the once the cells reach the spinal cord of the brain. At this point the Andromosis-Virus stops feeding of of the bodies cells and begins to effect the Central Nervous System (CNS) and at this point it is deemed incurable.

The Andromosis-Virus though the CNS often times start influencing the behavior of said infected. This normally takes about 40-48 hours to happen in which case more serious symptoms will occur. After the Virus reaches the brain and spinal cord it than begins to reproduce, virus particles move to other body tissues. It is during this phase that the virus enters the salivary glands and can be transmitted to other animals and people.

The Andromosis-Virus can be present in the saliva for one to five days before the onset of signs. Warm-blooded animals, including humans are intermediate host for the Andromosis-Virus. During its Lyric phase it is asexual, disseminates throughout the host and invades the local nerve endings and uses the nervous system as a ‘highway’ to move to the brain.

Inter-cellular Virus-filled cysts evade the immune response and persist for the entire life of the host. It can take days, weeks, or even months for an infected individual to start showing clear signs in this stage.

However, when these inter-cellular virus filled cysts shrink in size, allowing the strain 1.0 of the virus to move on to strain 2.3 of the Andromosis-Virus, and allowing some control back to the host, though not fully.

Once signs start showing the Andromosis-Virus has already began using the cells in the frontal lobe of the brain to replicate itself while destroying said cells. The Andromosis virus keeps the brain alive as this stage in order for the host to remain alive but the brain becomes somewhat dormant.

The Andromosis-Virus is easily transmissible through any bodily fluid because of this extreme contagiousness and very short incubation time and the fact that symptoms take at lest 40-48 hours to show heavily, thousands within one area could be infected through one single Infected in under and hour.

## **Symptoms**

A variety of behavioral abnormalities has been reported in hosts throughout all phases of the Andromosis-Virus. Here will list the symptoms and during what stages they are more likely to began to appear.

### **Symptoms, that are more likely to appear during the early stages of the Virus are as followed:**

* Fever
* Irritation and abnormal ‘bruising’ at the site where infection initially started.

The initial phase normally occurs after 40-48 hours, when the Virus reaches the hosts CNS and starts to effect it.

### **The initial phase, normally come with the following symptoms:**

* Memory deficits that progress into nervousness, anxiety and restlessness.
* Motor abnormalities, which both can increase activity and decrease activity in muscles. Causing both twitching, weakness.
* Diminished fear responses

### **During the med phase the following symptoms:**

* Increased restlessness and aggression
* Increased sensitivity to sound and light
* Muscular in-coordination, disorientation and seizures
* Increased salivation or frothing due to difficulty swallowing
* Difficulty breathing
* Chocking sounds
* Voice changes

### **Around eight to ten days after the med phase the virus will move on to its final phase and more serious symptoms occur such as:**

* Tingling, burning, or prickling in the face, hands, feet, and legs
* Dementia
* Psychotic behavior

## **Physical Appearance**

Those infected with the Andromosis-Virus Strain 1.0, attend to take on these physical traits. Their skin take on a ashen and morbidly pale, often to the point of showing a faint lace of delicate gray veins and their hair attend to take on a varying shades of silver to deep black, depending on the color of their hair before they where infected. The infecteds eyes appear to have especially large pupils, to the point of hardly seeing the iris’s which attend to keep their original color. Overtime the infecteds eyes will in the darkness appear to glow with the eyeshine commonly seen in nocturnal creatures.

They also grow in especially strong, black nails that are commonly used as claws when grown out long enough, it can however take quiet some time to grow long enough, usable set of crescent ‘claws’. These nails also grow at the toes.

## **Characteristics**

Infected, always have their pupils dilated and often began to show extreme aggression, mostly towards uninfected persons. Viciously attacking any uninfected persons in an attempt to more likely infect them above any other goal, even self-nourishment.

The virus causes the body to constantly pump itself full of adrenaline giving those infected heightened mobility and endurance. Infected can climb up objects or even fences and can leap and sprint towards victims in some cases. They can even go running for miles of territory before collapsing due to the lack of self-nourishment. This progress however also drastically speeds up the host’s metabolism.

During attacks on the uninfected, the infected will often times eat the soft tissue of the uninfected to sustain themselves if needed, showing the simple need to eat still exists.

Overtime the Virus seems to change the behavior of the infected because the recently-infected will remain active during the day, though long term infected peoples are generally more active at night.

## **Psychology**

Though their physical sense seem to be heightened greatly, the Strain 1.0 of the Virus seems to direct the host towards more animal like instincts and towards spreading infection by attacking the uninfected above all else. Though because they are still living even though they are highly instinctual, they still would do things such as eat and even rest when no uninfected can be heard, smelt, or seen.

## **Language**

Due to being programmed to use primal instincts most of their language and communication with one another is more or less visual, rather then vocal however, they are known for making croaking sounds or even yelling out to alert others around them of ‘pray’ or other passable dangers.

## **History**

* Is the very first strain of the Andromosis-Virus, which is why it is often referred to as the first Strain or Strain 1.0.
* Strain first became clearly apparent Two years after the Apocalypse
* Existed since year two of the ‘new world’ timeline.

## **Immunity**

It is rare for a individual to possess a natural immunity to the symptoms of the Andromosis-Virus. These individuals normally possess a rare blood type known as Rh-null, or commonly called ‘Golden blood’; This blood type is distinct from Rh negative since it has none of the Rh antigens at all. Though if the Virus does get to one of these immune peoples, they will still become a carrier of the Virus but be immune to its effect. This also mean they can spread the virus though the normal mean as well. Also birds, deer, lions or house cats are seemly UN-effected to the Virus, Strains.