Chronology and Timeline Overlays
Outbreak Day-by-Day Timeline
This timeline follows the first days and weeks of the Hemorrhage Virus disaster from the buried VX-99 origin to the first countermeasures and city.
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Timeline
July 10, 1968: Operation Burn Bright doses Trevor Brett and his Marines with VX-99. The supersoldier program creates the biological root of the future extinction chain.
Pre-outbreak modern era: Gibson and Medford continue the hidden program. Building 8 becomes the site where the old project mutates into modern catastrophe.
Outbreak Day 1: Team Ghost enters Building 8. Reed loses original team members and the first field proof of the outbreak escapes.
Early outbreak: Kate is extracted from Atlanta CDC. The scientific response moves to Plum Island.
Reading Notes
Use outbreak-relative placement unless an exact date is supported by the book text. This topic is meant to explain sequence and consequence, not just order.