āMy name is Dr. William Matras. I amāI was; I suppose Iām not anymoreāan epidemic researcher for the Centers for Disease Control. I have been working on the issue of the Kellis cure since it was first allowed into the atmosphere. I have been tracking the development of the epidemic, along with my colleague, Dr. Christopher Sinclair.... Chris wouldnāt sanction what Iām about to say next. Good thing he isnāt around to tell me not to say it, right?
The news has been lying to you. This is not a virulent summer cold; this is not a new strain of the swine flu. This is, and has always been, a man-made pandemic whose effects were previously unknown in higher mammals. Put bluntly, the Kellis cure has mutated, becoming conjoined with an experimental Marburg-based cure for cancer. It is airborne. It is highly contagious. And it raises the dead.
.... Let me repeat: We have been lying to you. The government is not allowing us to spread any knowledge about the walking plague, saying that we would trigger a mass panic. Well, the masses are panicking, and I donāt think keeping secrets is doing anybody any favors. Not at this stage.... Ā
What follows is everything we know about this disease, and the simple fact of it is, we know there isnāt any cure. We know we canāt stop it.ā
[Kellis-Amberlee Report]
