Mothrot

Calyptratrichosis Encephalopathy, or more commonly known as Mothrot, is a moth-borne viral infection - a virus that, in less than two weeks, turns infectees into something akin to zombies - that originated in the Ural Mountains, Russia.

In April of 2008, a group of lepidopterists - entomologists specialising in the study of butterflies and moths - were on a research-based trip in the Southern Ural Forests. Here, they came across, and inadvertantly disturbed, an undiscovered species of moth from the genus Calyptra, a genus of moths commonly referred to as "vampire moths" due to their habit of consuming the blood of vertebrae, which includes humans, in a similar fashion to mosquitoes.

This species of moth - later named Calyptra putres, derived from the Latin word putresco, which refers to the concept of decay or putrefaction, in reference to what eventually happens to those infected with Mothrot - quickly introduced calyptratrichosis encephalopathy to the country and sent it into a pandemic nation-wide.

While the country was almost immediately closed off from the rest of the world, and trade with neighbours and overseas country alike was terminated, it was by that time too late. Arguably, it was also a futile point of action; within just a few weeks, Russia's neighbouring countries had begun reporting possible sightings of calyptra putres, and within only a couple of months, the countries had begun to report confirmed cases of calyptratrichosis encephalopathy.

The virus hit Eurasian countries fast, and it hit them hard.

Eventually, Mothrot had found its way off the continent and the virus had become worldwide.

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I'll make a proper blurb/description at a later point. I want to work on the book itself first though.