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R-Virus
The R-Virus (shortage of Retribution Virus) refers to the United States 2037 spread of Retsude Vilarious, a bacterial infection that causes intense delirium and is extremely contagious. Those afflicted with the infection, often transferred via bite or scratch of an infected host, start showing symptoms of a ravenous fever, and if not treated almost immediately, results in death 92% of the time (as cited by the Center for Disease Control). What makes the R-Virus different from other infections is that once the host dies, their body is reanimated, allowing their brain to become reactive again. This results in the host becoming a vessel of a human, showing no form of emotion, no bodily reactions, and invulnerability to what would otherwise cause physical pain to a human. The only set instruction experts have found within the brain of a previously alive infected host is the innate and primal urge to feed. Reanimated hosts, those aforementioned, are attracted to anything alive for sustenance. This feeding on humans, along with the deadly fever, has resulted in the mass deaths of approximately 300 million humans living in the United States.

Overview
After the massive influx of usage of oil and power in the energy surge of United States in 2034, many countries started preparing armies against the U.S. to keep the amount of energy balanced throughout the world. Within these countries was South Korea, who had been previously working on an infection for use in biochemical warfare (what would be later revealed as the R-Virus). South Korea, with war in mind, offered the United States leeway in exchange for sharing the technology and intelligence used in their energy surge. Once the United States declined these terms, South Korea prepared a nuclear warhead for launch, attached with it a portion of the virus. Other countries did not attempt to thwart their plan of destroying the majority of the U.S. in order to keep the levels of energy balanced. The U.S. started becoming looked at as an outcast as the warhead fell upon New York, killing millions and spreading the virus that would soon destroy almost all of the country.

Etymology
The name Retribution Virus is a rough translation of the Korean name eungbo baileoseu, however when studied by researchers and/or experimenters, the scientific name for the infection is Restude Vilarious, a term coined by American biologist Miguel Valenzuela early on around zero hour. The South Korean military code-named the virus Retribution after the denying of terms of agreement on America's end during the signing of the legal document Agreement of Limited Energy Consumption (2035) brought up by both North and South Korea to balance energy usage throughout the world. The name has been shortened to R-Virus for convenience and has had many other pseudonyms, such as Black Death 2, Apocinfection, and others.

Treatment
Once a human has been infected with the virus, there isn't much he/she can do to prevent further symptoms (and ultimately death) from occurring. At extreme cases very early on, maybe an excessive amount of antibiotics can stop the fever enough to keep the infected alive, although the subject will have to be restrained because of the possibility of violence during streams of delirium. Very few patients during experiments have been sustained from this method, but it is possible. An alternative is severing the body part of the person right after being scratched/bitten by someone affected. This, although a last result, is the most effective way in stopping the spread of the virus (79% success rate in controlled experimental areas).