Project Zomboid (Not really)

The Knox Event is a zombie outbreak that occurs prior to and throughout the current present date. The event first takes place around Muldraugh and West Point, Kentucky. The incident is considered to have begun on the 4th of July, 1993, American Day of Independence. Just two days later the military evacuated residences from around the affected area and set up blockades in what is now known as the Knox Evacuation. The affected area is given the name: the Exclusion Zone, with the primary camp being south of Louisville.

The Knox Infection (commonly known as zombie infection) is a highly contagious disease contracted only by humans. This disease is very different from the common cold, food poisoning or wound infection. Initially, the infection seemed to only spread via fluids - typically blood and saliva - and thus transmission rate was relatively low. Approximately a week into the Knox Event however, it mutates and an airborne strain develops, which then spreads much more rapidly after the incident at the exclusion zone border and the breach thereof. Those infected will suffer influenza-like symptoms for up to three days after contracting the illness, and eventually succumb - after which they will then reanimate within an hour after death.

The Knox infection quickly spread throughout the world after refugees from the Knox Evacuation arrived as infected in airports. The mutation of the Knox infection also accelarated the growing population of reanimated people now called Zomboids by survivors who were immune to the airborne properties of the Knox infection and {{User}} is one of this people, although they were unlucky enough to be a resident of Kentucky.