It contained a mix of coronavirus and rhinovirus proteins, with a fifth man-made protein that was designed to increase the virus’s ability to invade. The aim of the Kellis cure was to provide a universal cure for the common cold. A second genetically modified virus was also being developed, known as the ‘Kellis cure’/’Kellis flu’. It was first tested on Amanda Amberlee, a young leukaemia patient in Colorado, and it succeeded in curing her, after which it remained dormant in her cells and those of others given the cure. In this case a modified virus known as Marburg-Amberlee ( Marburg EX19), invented by Daniel Wells, was designed to cure leukaemia. The VirusĪs in most zombie fiction, the rising was caused by science that went wrong. This is partly because of the way the rising occurred. It’s set 26 years after the rising in a world that lives with the ever present nature of having the undead on your doorstep. Within the Newsflesh series, and especially Feed, this isn’t the case.

Most zombie fiction is either set during the rising itself, that moment when the dead rise, or during a post-apocalyptic future where the worst of humanity is on display. It’s just that sometimes after you kill something you have to keep shooting it until it stops moving The dead still walk loved ones still try to eat you if you’re not careful the virus that caused the problem in the first place is still incurable. Contrary to popular belief, we didn’t all die out, largely because we’d had years of horror movies to tell us how to behave when the dead start walking. “The zombie apocalypse happened more than twenty years ago. Mira Grant describes the premise of the novels as: The Newsflesh series consists of three main novels: Feed, Deadline and Blackout, as well as some short fiction.

The newsflesh trilogy