Editing Carrier Group:Zombies (section)

===The Virus===

Zombie virus infection causes a fever that lasts for a few days and then appears to go away. But during the fever stage it infects the nervous system and then goes dormant. And upon the death of the host, at the moment when brain death occurs, the virus reactivates. Reactivating the central nervous system and taking control of it. Thus reanimating the dead person.

At this stage, every survivor can be assumed to have been exposed to the virus.

The reanimated have the barest minimum of metabolic activity and no higher brain functions. They exist to further spread the virus and to increase the number of reanimated. By attacking the living and the healthy. Zombie bite causes a particularly virulent infection that is dangerous even with hospital care, and likely to be fatal without it. Zombies attempt to savage their victims to death and even eat parts of them, for the zombies still have a minimal, although terribly slow metabolism and still need energy to remain mobile, generally entering periods of immobile dormancy when fresh targets are not available. But they never completely eat their victims, leaving enough for the freshly dead to reanimate.

Their minimal metabolism makes zombies sluggish in movement, except for a brief period shortly following the reanimation. However, it also makes them very difficult to put down. Tissue damage, even to otherwise vital organs, only hinders them. Only their infected neural system is truly vulnerable. Especially the brain. If the brain is damaged, the virus loses control over the reanimated body.