Last week I talked about my upcoming story, The Smell of the Dead, and how I got the ideas for the virus used. Today I want to go into more detail about the viruses.

First off, on the subject of  Morgellons Disease, this has to be one of the weirdest diseases I have ever heard off. After some research I couldn’t help but see a connection between Morgellons and a zombie virus. Here are a list of the symptoms:

Skin rashes or sores that can cause intense itching 

Crawling sensations on and under the skin, often compared to insects moving, stinging or biting,  or worms crawling under the skin.

Fibers or crystals, threads or black stringy material in and on the skin

Behavioral changes

Black specks in lesions that do not heal

Memory loss or general brain fog with difficulty concentrating

Imagine one moment you are alive but sick. The next you are coughing up blood with strange looking fibers scattered about in the mess. Then the fibers start to protrude from your skin. And to make matters worse, they spread a virus that turns people into zombies.

MRSA can look like a spider bite, pimple, or boil. They can quickly turn into painful abscesses that need surgical draining. The bacteria can stay confined in the skin, but can also burrow deep into the body, causing infections in the bones, bloodstream, surgical scars, heart valves, lungs, and joints.

Why or how could a zombie virus effect the body like it does? Or should I ask, why or how my virus would? This virus would effect the body on such a deep level, though it would begin with the brain, it spreads out  through the entire body. The zombie virus is this story, once in the final stage, is incurable.

What drew me to Lyme being a part of the virus, is the fact that the bacteria can hide among the DNA without being noticed. And since so many doctors don’t believe it is disease, wold make spotting this kind virus very hard.

The zombie virus is made up of several different types of viruses. Lyme makes it invisible to detect, and so many doctors wouldn’t even believe it exist.

Next week I will bring all of these together and show a brief scene of one the characters from The Smell of the Dead slowly turning into a zombie. 

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Author Dale Eldon lives in a Macomb, Illinois, and takes care of a sick mother while working overnights at McDonald’s. He spends his free time with loved ones and writing his butt off. Between blogging and writing anthology submission calls, he is currently working on a zombie trilogy for a series of novellas and a novel.