Excerpt from article by Thomas Goering titled "The Evestone Cannibal," June 30

"..Mrs. Jordan had left the body in the hospital, in her room. Police say that after eating a large section of the woman's abdomen, she walked down the hallway in the opposite direction of the main desk and descended the stairs through the emergency exit without being seen by any of the other nurses on duty.

She was first noticed by Herbert Lasel, who spotted her walking through the parking lot behind the hospital. "Her chin was covered in blood and she was walking like she was drunk," Herbert says. "She was scratching her arm and screaming and crying a lot. I called the police as quickly as I could…'"

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Quote from Dr. Robert M Lange, E-Journal Entry 314, July 18

"I received the new parasite this morning that Dr. Schrödinger mailed to me, and I am eager to examine its effects on our laboratory's test mice. Its origin is unknown, but we will be examining some of its effects shortly.

In a local hospital near Dr. Schrödinger, a woman came in with flu-like symptoms, and had later been diagnosed with toxoplasmosis. They had kept her for a few extra nights when she started refusing to eat or drink. Then all of the sudden, a week after she had been admitted, she killed and consumed a nurse during the night shift. She was found a half hour later in a nearby grocery store parking lot, slowly walking in circles and screaming. When the police arrived at two in the morning to try to take her into custody, she attacked a deputy and was shot and killed. The deputy's excuse was that pepper spay did not have any effect on her, and when they tried using their tazer, she kept getting back up. It was later confirmed that she was a schizophrenic, though her sudden violence and hostility were never explained.

A sample of an evolved form of toxoplasmosa gondii was sent from the autopsy to my colleague to be inspected. He believes that the parasite could be responsible for the way that she acted under the circumstances, but it is very unlikely. A parasite with that much control over the host's brain has never been seen before. "

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Quote from Fox News' Gabrielle Mason, July 20

"A wildly aggressive group of four individuals were arrested in downtown Evestone yesterday after assaulting twenty civilians using their teeth. One older woman bit into a young man's shoulder, and continued biting him until she was pulled away by a concerned onlooker. When she resisted arrest, police had no choice but to use force. The angry lady has still not yet been identified due to the scratches on her arms and face. Doctors believe the wounds to be self inflicted.

Investigators say that all four individuals showed many of the telltale signs of schizophrenia but were violent and hostile toward anyone that approached them. What is even more bizarre is that the individuals were found several blocks away from each other, and do not appear to recognize one another. All four of the individuals were sedated and taken into custody. They are currently being identified and will be receiving psychiatric treatment shortly."

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Quote from Dr. Robert M Lange, E-Journal Entry 316, July 21

"I began experimenting with the new parasite yesterday by infecting a group of both mice and rats in separate enclosures, and its effects on both types of rodents are already very apparent.

This morning, the control group had retreated to the far side of their enclosure, away from the manipulated group, whose enclosure is on a nearby shelf. They seemed to be very aware of the parasites' presence in the nearby animals. Upon observing the mice that carried the parasites, I was surprised to see that they were all dead. The rats however were all very much alive. Their movements were quick and sporadic and they seemed to have very little coordination.

Radical changes in host's behavior are unheard of for this form of parasite, and the speed at which it worked is incredible. I have never seen this kind of symptoms in lab rodents before in my life! I will be continuing regular observations of the infected rats for the next few days."

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Quote from reporter Patricia Sandino, BBC foreign breaking news July 30th

"An explosion of violence breaks out in northern united states as an unconfirmed disease spreads across the country. Thousands of the alleged "infected" have been filling up hospitals over the past few days, and the US government has declared the matter a possible state of emergency. Angry civilian mobs and riots have been reported in several major cities in northern United States. Canada and Mexico may be closing off their borders soon to prevent the infection form crossing.

The origin of the bacteria is unknown, but it is believed to be carried by rodents, and could possibly have entered several different American water supplies across the country. The true level of threat that the infection poses is currently unknown, but there is some speculation that this infection could pose a very large threat to the nation."

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Quote from Dr. Robert M Lange, E-Journal Entry 320, July 27

"This is incredible! Unlike the toxoplasmosa gondii parasite, this new version has not only chemically altered the mind of the rats by making it unafraid of the smell of cat urine; it has also permanently altered the workings of the rat's brain completely. The test subjects from July 20th have now swung into a completely different mood than before!

Their quick and sporadic temperament has changed over the past few days into a new slow docile lethargic mood. Truly zombie-like. Their black eyes have begun to dry up, and I am assuming by the way they respond to light that they are now completely blind.

That is not all. They also seem to have taken an interest in cannibalism. Over the last three nights, two rodents have been killed and eaten by the others. I assume that the sudden taste for red meat that they have developed is because this parasite can only complete its life cycle in the intestines of a cat, just like the toxoplasmosa gondii!

The fact that the Evestone cannibal lady also had this same parasite is truly frightening. And since the toxoplasmosa parasite is known to cause schizophrenia in a human fetus before birth, this could be the reason for the violent group of 'suddenly psycho' schizophrenic people on the news. Perhaps the virus truly was the cause of the Evestone Cannibal Lady's crime.

I have begun a letter to the state to hopefully try to warn them. If this parasite gets to a cat population in a big city where it can multiply, many people could be at risk of becoming infected. God help them."

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Fox News Worldwide, August 15

"The President of the United States along with the supreme court was evacuated on Monday to avoid infection, followed by the prime minister of Canada and the president of Mexico. The place to which they will be relocated is confidential, but it will be free from the Parasite Toxoplasmosa Atrum discovered by Dr. Patrick Schrödinger and Dr. Robert Lange. This affectionately named "zombie virus" truly wasn't a virus after all, but a parasite of the protozoan genus, and is extremely resistant to drugs.

It is estimated that today over 98% of the United States population has been infected and 48% and 52% of the populations of Canada and Mexico. Reports of cases are surfacing throughout South America.

"A normal parasite does not spread this easily," says Dr. Schrödinger. "I believe we are dealing with a large-scale biological weapon. This parasite did not conquer an entire nation on its own. I believe that it had help." Our news teams have observed the parasite on a large scale- -by helicopter, and the after effects are devastating. Millions of Infected men and women roam the streets of cities across the US. Large processions of these 'zombie' people have spread to every corner of the United States. There are few true survivors left in this truly gruesome apocalypse."

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Quote from Dr. Schrödinger, E-Journal Entry 410, August 20

"With the tools and the safety granted to myself and Dr. Lange by the US government, we have been able to work a lot more effectively along with many other scientists in studying the effects of Toxoplasmosa Atrum on humans. So far we have been able to observe three male subjects that were captured and sent to us. What we know so far is that severe trauma to the head is the most efficient way to dispatch one of them (should he try to bite you), but you could kill one the same way you kill an average healthy human male; it would just take longer.

The parasite's effects on the human body are very strange. While destroying a large amount of selected activity in the brain, the parasite also greatly strengthens the immune system, and thickens the walls of many of their major organs. Equally strange are the parasites effects on their metabolism. When someone becomes infected, their metabolism is greatly slowed. They can go for incredibly long amounts of time without eating or drinking.

Their movement is very slow for the most part but when we introduced cat urine into one of the test subject's enclosures (we keep them in separate enclosure incase they decide to eat each other), the subject was changed. He became extremely active and began to pound on the walls and scream. We believe that cat urine stimulates them because the parasite's goal is to settle in the intestines of a cat. When the subject does not sense the presence of a cat in the immediate area, the parasite slows the body down, slows the metabolism, and essentially goes into a dormant state waiting for a cat or other felid to come into the vicinity so that it may change hosts.

In their slow docile state, subjects seem to be nearly brain dead. They may suddenly remember something from before they became infected. For example, our second subject recited a poem over and over for two hours one night. This behavior was very puzzling to us.

Overall they seem to have only three main concerns: feeding, going to the bathroom, and sleeping for short periods of time. They usually sleep standing up for about two hours each day, at random points in the day.

We plan to further study the activity of all three subjects in addition to conducting test on laboratory rats. Hopefully we can discover a way to bring them back to being human and kill off the parasite someday."