The apparent initial infection was in the Boston area in early November. The first reported case was backtracked to St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Brighton, MA. Since the the initial patients were identified well after the Plague was underway, there could well have been many other individuals whose records were missed. The source of the initial infection was never identified. There were apparently only a dozen or so people who were initially exposed to the virus. All of them were college students who also had a variety of part time jobs. A couple of them worked in bars and restaurants. The bar and restaurant connection made tracking of potential contacts essentially impossible. In addition, it was unknown at the time how long the patients had been contagious, or even how the disease was spread.
The initial patients raised a flag with CDC only when a few of them died of an unknown disease within a short time during their phase 2, while some of their friends only had high fevers. This occured around Christmas time. When no further patients showed up for almost two of weeks, it was dismissed as a blip. It was only when the much larger second wave of the infection started that the hospitals noticed since phase 2 has a high fever and a high mortality rate. Any initial hospital visits or doctor’s visits the initial victims undertook were not noted by CDC since the symptoms were mild and short lived.
The second wave of infection started in the second week of January. This meant that manyl of the people in the second wave had been contagious during the Christmas travel and shopping season. The second wave only drew notice when the large number of individuals showed up at hospitals with high fevers and a week or so later over a third of them died. CDC was involved heavily once a large number of people, primarily in the Boston area started showing up in the area hospitals with unexplained high fevers and other symptoms. CDC investigators kicked into high gear as soon as the high number of deaths was noticed. Second wave cases were extensive in Boston and the cities and towns close to Boston and at college campuses around New England. There were major outbreaks in cities up and down both east and west coasts in cities such as New York City, Washington DC, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Seattle. There were lessor but still significant numbers of cases in all other major metro areas in the US. There were scattered cases around the world, mostly in Europe and Japan.
Quarantines were imposed soon afterwards. The entire area around metro Boston plus all the college campuses was put under quarantine. At first the quarantine was total. People were not allowed to leave their neighborhood. Only health care, emergency service and vital materials were allowed to move in or out of the area. The CDC started an emergency program to identify the disease. The FBI, CIA and other intelligence agencies immediately started looking at the possiblitiy of weapons of mass destruction as the source. Martial law was declared in late January to maintain order in affected areas of the US.
It wasn’t until the third or fourth wave of infected individuals showed up that CDC and Fort Dettrick figured out the time line for the virus. The third wave occurred all over the United States, but with the heaviest concentrations in Boston, New York, Florida and popular family or college vacation spots. These were places that students, faculty and locals had traveled to during the winter holiday break.
By the time the world figured out how the psi virus was spread it was to late. Business travelers, government officials, students and vacationers had spread it far and wide. The long lead time had sucker punched the health authorities around the world. The virus was spread to every major city in the world. From the cities, it spread throughout most rural areas that did not cut themselves off quickly.
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