SURVIVING THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE
by Max Strider
Chapter 1: History of the Infection
No one really knows how the Infection started or why it started. However, there are theories among the Infected and Survivors.
Disease
The most common and most likely theory is that the Infection is an air-borne disease. Within this theory, there are also theories about how the disease came to be:
1) Maybe there was a horrible biohazard accident in a lab somewhere. First the people present got it, killed or turned whoever didn't, and then spread it to the rest of the world.
2) Maybe it happened naturally, where some mutation or derivation of an animal disease ended up affecting one individual, and then many, until the world got it.
3)The lease likely is mainly reserved for the hippies. The "man" had a plan for world annihilation or population reduction. Maybe they didn't mean for it to be this wide-scale. Maybe they wanted to kill off the human race with the exception of a select few (national leaders, million and billionaires, etc.) and planned on starting the world anew. Sounds likely, right? (Note the sarcasm.)
Drugs
So we've all heard of the notorious drug "bath salts," and how it supposedly caused a man to gnaw another man's face off. Some people think that the Infection was caused by a drug similar to it. But if that was so, how could the Infection have been spread through drugs unless everyone was on the drug.
Moving on from the causes of the Infection, there is also the obvious but mentionable effects of the Infection. The actual process of changing will be covered in other chapters. But generally, for all Infected, they contract it through either a bite from another Infected or through the air. All changing processes are very painful, but the level of pain depends on the person and the type of Infected. The Special Infected tend to experience more pain while mutating than Common Infected, since they go through more drastic physical changes.
Being an Infected, I'm able to safely observe the changing processes of other Infected, along with having experienced it I'm a pretty reliable source for this information. If you don't really care about our suffering ("our" referring to the Infected) then you can just skip the next few chapters, which will give a profile on each type of Infected.
If you are interested to hear the intricacies of each Infected, then move on to the next chapter.