Virus Information

Mortuus Oriri ( or The Dead Rise Virus ) is described as working by traveling through the bloodstream from the point of entry to the brain, where the virus replicates in all cells in the frontal lobe, eventually destroying them. All bodily functions cease during this period, including respiration and heartbeat. The infected individual falls into a coma during this period and eventually awakens as a zombie. Their one and only goal will be to find and infect other individuals. They can be dispatched as a normal human would.

The symptoms occur in the following order. The timeline may be several hours off, depending on the size, number and location of the bites, and the constitution of the victim.

Hour 1- Pain and discoloration of the infected area. Immediate clotting of the wound.

Hour 5- Fever between 99 F. and 103 F. Chills, slight dementia, vomiting, and acute pain in the joints.

Hour 8- Numbing of extremities and infected area, increased fever from 103 F to 106 F. increased dementia, loss of muscular coordination

Hour 11- Paralysis in the lower body, overall numbness, slowed heart rate

Hour 16- Coma

Hour 20- Cardiac arrest, cessation of brain activity

Hour 23- Reanimation

Mortuus Oriri is extremely contagious and 100% fatal. Physical contact with infected blood or saliva always result in infection. Ingestion of infected flesh results in permanent death unless the victim has open mouth sores. Mortuus Oriri is fatal to all living organisms. Parasitic insects such as mosquitoes reject infected hosts 100% of the time.