#kellis-amberlee

[bookworming-101]

Just finished Feed by Mira Grant!

Only two word I can say prior posting its review:

Holy. Shit.

But in other regards;

Updates on next spooky season book coming soon! 🎃 Thank you all for coming along with me this month. 💕

[burningonyx]

apparentlyyouwuvhugz replied to your post: Reading "Parasite" by Mira Grant

That is exactly the kind of mindset that led to the horrific events in the story! (I’m guessing. I haven’t read it)

Yes, well, except for the fact that the whole zombie thing took even the tapeworm's creators by surprise. In fact, at the point I'm at now, I don't think the company that made it has yet figured out what's going on.

There are some interesting similarities to her previous "Newsflesh" series, since the Kellis-Amberlee virus kept people from getting ill except when traumatic injuries or zombie bites or other factors made the virus go into zombification mode, but that series was post-apocalyptic (after a fashion), and this one is happening as the situation is arising. Also, the blurb suggests the tapeworms are sentient, whereas the Kellis-Amberlee virus wasn't.

[aftertheendtimes]

First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes the hybrid viral strain known as "Kellis-Amberlee."

-Shaun Mason

[aftertheendtimes]

You only use the XH-237 when you need to be sure, right here and now, with no margin for error. It's a kit for use after actual exposure. 　

[aftertheendtimes]

The most advanced handheld kits are the Apple XH-237s. They cost more than I care to think about, and since they're field kits, they can only be used once without replacing the needle array, a process that costs more than most independent journalists make in a year. Once is more than enough. Needles so thin they can barely be felt, hitting at sites on all five fingers, the palm, and the wrist. Viral detection and comparison mechanisms so advanced that the Army supposedly bought the right to use several of Apple's patents after the XH-237 came out　

[aftertheendtimes]

Blood testing kits range from your basic field units, which can be wrong as often as thirty percent of the time, to the ultra advanced models, which are so sensitive that they've been known to trigger false positives as they pick up the live Kellis infection harbored by nearly every human on Earth. 

[aftertheendtimes]

An Elephant can be infected with the same amount of Kellis-Amberlee as a human. Ten microns. Speaking literally, you could pack more viral microns than that onto the period of this sentence. The horse that started the infection that killed Rebecca Ryman was injected with an estimated 900 million microns of live Kellis-Amberlee.

Now look me in the eye and tell me that wasn't terrorism.

-From Images May Disturb You, the blog of Georgia Mason, March 25, 2040

[aftertheendtimes]

Marbug Amberlee was a helper of man, not an enemy