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The Infected Researcher
As a part of the United State's efforts to develop a cure for the HIV viral scare in the 1990's, research and development was done in the isolation of the Antarctic south. Experimentation was done to great extent and results were minimal at best. When the researchers stationed there discovered a new unusual substance in the deep ice, it was too late before they realized the substance was an ancient form of life. A fungal strain that became so intelligent, the massive increase in the need for energy to thrive with this greater intelligence created the most deadly form of life known to the earth. A fast spreading, flesh eating ice fungus that invades the body and brain resulting in eventual death and occupation of the nervous system. Although the body is dead, the growth of icy blue tendrils that sprout from beneath the flesh metabolize oxygen to feed the dying tissues and motivate the body. The rest of the soft tissues are consumed as food. The ice fungus uses it's influence on the reanimated brain to control the dead body as it's own and spread forth. The resulting corpse becomes a walking biological time bomb of gruesome death. Could it be the end of mankind's reign on this planet? Only if it can escape it's icy Antarctic prison.