Faders Journal

FADERS JOURNAL
SERGE RAYMOND DEE
11/16/92

I write this account now, I want this story told, my story, the story of my friends and family told and I fear that it will not. I don't know how much time I have left. I may have all the time in the world, I may be dead tomorrow.

It began a month ago in Ottawa, according to the news that is. An outbreak of a strange and very deadly disease, referred by the papers as a Group II - ssDNA virus. It was called Stanton's Syndrome, or SSN7 the CDC classification. A geminivirus, the experts claimed that it should only affect plant life and yet we succumbed to it as easily as the command cold.

You would think if they had enough time to name it, determine it was a plant virus they must have known about it before Ottawa confessed.

The symptoms are like the Influenza virus at first: Fever, chills, the muscular pains and aches, for people who are not doctors. All though I do not remember ever getting muscular pains from the flu. Then it alters drastically.

The government for whatever reason held back against where it possibly came from. Many of these conspiracy idiots on the radio say the same thing; "The bastards probably created it in some fucking lab in N.W.T."

Not sure where it came from, but SSN7, suddenly appeared up north and it rapidly spread down to Montreal, Toronto, and Ottawa. From there it hit the world...

Anyway, about a week after the symptoms arrive, the sufferer begins to bleed out of the body cavities. Eyes, nose, butt, etc...(which is pretty gross.) Then the person just vanishes. No trace whatsoever. Nothing at all is left of the person, except for any artificial implants that they may have within their body at the time of death, such as fillings and pacemakers.

That's it, except maybe memories.

It's the most goddamn horrifying thing I have ever seen. I saw on the news video tapes of those infected turning to vapour, like a cloud. It's named after Dr. Dennis Stanton, the first doctor to treat it. At least that's what being reported from those radio and Tv stations still on the air.