Captain Trips

A weaponized influenza virus. Referred to as Captain Trips, Super Flu, Tube Neck and other colloquialisms. The virus is developed in a secret military lab located somewhere in the Southwestern United States, where it is accidentally released. Emergency quarantine protocols are activated but a security malfunction allows a guard and his family to escape. They are already infected, and start an epidemic, which quickly turns into a pandemic, that leads directly to the death of an estimated 99.4% of the world's human population within a nineteen day period (June 16th-July 4th). In addition to Humans many domesticated animals also fall to the disease as do primates.
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