Zombie Pandemic That Started with a Simple Tonsillitis

Zombie Pandemic That Started with a Simple Tonsillitis

It all began quietly and unnoticed, like any ordinary illness. A patient with symptoms of pharyngitis appeared at a hospital in Kyiv—sore throat, elevated temperature, and unpleasant yellowish nasal discharge. The doctors thought it was a regular acute tonsillitis and prescribed the standard treatment—antibiotics. And so, amoxicillin—a simple drug that was supposed to help.

But this time, things didn’t go as planned. Before the patient could recover, their condition suddenly worsened. The temperature spiked to critical levels, and red rashes appeared all over their body. The doctors had to urgently administer antihistamines and save the patient from developing anaphylactic shock. Little did they know, this was just the beginning of a major disaster.

The real catastrophe struck just a few hours later. The patient, who had been perfectly healthy before, suddenly died, and the doctors had to pronounce clinical death. Whether it was the medication or the body itself that decided to fight the infection this way, death came quickly. And then the real horror began.

One of the orderlies, desperately trying to save the patient, kept resuscitating them even after the doctors had given up. And a miracle happened—the patient suddenly came back to life. However, this “miraculous rescue” didn’t have a happy ending; it became the beginning of the end. The patient became aggressive, bit the orderly, and this was when the real epidemic began.

The orderly, who had been bitten, also started showing extreme aggression. Other hospital staff quickly realized that this was no ordinary infection. People became aggressive, physically weakened, but their behavior became more and more dangerous. Soon, the virus spread throughout the city. Within a year, most of the population was infected.

Every day, the situation worsened. People died from starvation, others killed each other. Hospitals closed down, and only 1% of the population remained healthy. It all started in one hospital, from a simple case of pharyngitis. And now, humanity was on the brink of extinction.

Now, years after the catastrophe, there is only one reminder of how we once lived. And it all started because of tonsillitis.

Author: Dr. Ton