Laughing death

Plaxiavirus also known as The Laughing Death is a rare and deadly virus that is believed to have originated somewhere in south america. The disease is a type of viral hemorrhaghic fever like Ebola or Marburg and like these other viruses it can also cause internal and external bleeding, but that is where the similarities end. symptoms start as mild flu like symptoms, severe headaches, then escalates to high fever delirium and then the illness's most noteworthy characteristic, manic uncontrollable laughter hence the name. Virus is spread through bodily fluids and symptoms show within 3 to 4 days after infection.After the laughing stage of the illness starts the infected cough up blood during the laughing spreading the infection and at the same time will suffer body tremors. In some cases, the infected will become extremely violent attacking people who can contract the virus from the bloody fluids coughed by the laughing sick the infected die within two to three weeks of contracting the virus. The most noteworthy incident involving this frightening contagion was in 1998 when a cruise ship sailing from Guatemala stopped off the coast of Baja A CDC team was dispatched to the ship and found the whole ship either dead or infected with only five survivors. Several infected in the throughs of the laughing stage of the virus attacked the team killing two in the process. After the infected where put down by gunshots from the accompanying soldiers the ship was evacuated and the ship was scuttled. Interviews with the survivors after their quarantine was over confirmed the outbreak was caused by a woman who returned from exploring in belize where she was bitten by something in one of the rivers. currently, there is no vaccine or treatment for the laughing death and as far as we know no efforts are being undertaken.