The Spread by Sean Deville

Author:Sean Deville [Deville, Sean]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Zombies
Publisher: Severed Press
Published: 2018-12-17T05:00:00+00:00

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Quarantine. The Hollywood image often portrayed soldiers in NBC gear escorting scientists around donned in hazmat suits. Frightened civilians would be herded and penned as the military and the doctors tried to cure them, usually with the end result of nuclear weapons being used. In the UK, at least, the reality was somewhat different from that. With nothing like the Centre for Disease Control in existence, the United Kingdom had to rely on a mishmash of organisations and agreements that had hardly ever been tested. When it came to disaster preparedness, the British could have learnt something from their American cousins. The problem was, Britain was one of those unique countries where natural disasters rarely happened.

The military could only engage in civil matters by direct instruction of the Cabinet Office, and at present nobody in the cabinet office even knew that the first zombie to manifest on British soil had been shot dead. It was also problematic that every member of the Cabinet was now infected. So far, all that was known was that lethal force had needed to be used when all other means had been shown to be ineffective, multiple witnesses claiming it was a justified use of force. The information had to filter up a half dozen layers of the bloated democratic structure before the Home Secretary was informed that a civilian had been killed by a member of the Manchester Police force. The Home Secretary noted the information and asked to be kept informed. She would later receive a phone call from Sir Osbourne clarifying how bad the situation likely was.

It was John’s selfless sense of duty that persuaded management to quarantine the hospital wing, as well as the staff and patients present when Peter had risen up to attack everyone. There were laws that allowed for the quarantine and the forced medical examination of civilians. The 1988 Public Health (Infectious Diseases) Regulations had provision for such, and as the days progressed, those provisions would be applied with increasing frequency. In the event of a biological contamination that threatened the public health, the role of the police was to facilitate and coordinate resources. Secure the area for other specialist teams to attend and to prevent the further endangerment of the public.

By the time Colonel Carter had been informed of the live fire incident, senior police officers were already on scene. Superintendent Craig Soul had been forced to break off a very enjoyable late lunch with the local police and crime commissioner. He hadn’t even been able to enjoy his pudding, so he was not in the best of moods when he arrived at the hospital twenty minutes after the shooting. It soon became apparent that the situation was deadly serious, requiring his presence and his full attention. John was about to give the Superintendent something else to worry about.

Superintendent Soul had marched up to the Emergency ward entrance only to be denied entry by a sheepish looking subordinate. On John’s recommendation, the contaminated part of the

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