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Patient Zero

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70 feature instances
74 referencing feature instances

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Patient Zero	page	PatientZero
Patient Zero	comment	The Virus has taken over the entire world/country/town. Almost always, there is a patient zero. This is the person that started it all, the very first person to be infected. Perhaps they carried the virus for a while without realizing they were a Zombie Infectee. Perhaps they were the one who created the virus. Sometimes, you have to kill patient zero to stop the virus before it spreads to anyone else. Other times, Patient Zero carries the original, unmutated virus, which the heroes need to Find the Cure!. If the Patient Zero is asymptomatic and/or doesn't know what they're carrying, they may be a Typhoid Mary or Zombie Infectee.
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Patient Zero / int_11b7db91	type	Patient Zero
Patient Zero / int_11b7db91	comment	Cinnamon Bun of Adventure Time becomes Patient Zero in the episode "From Bad to Worse". Why? Because he ate a piece of zombie flesh. Did we mention Cinnamon Bun is a complete moron?
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Patient Zero / int_17dbf5ae	type	Patient Zero
Patient Zero / int_17dbf5ae	comment	In the second season of Kamen Rider Amazons, the protagonist Chihiro/Kamen Rider Amazon Neo is revealed to be the source of Lysogenic cells virus that causes normal humans to mutate into a new breed of mindless man-eating Amazons.
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Patient Zero / int_18284e18	type	Patient Zero
Patient Zero / int_18284e18	comment	Vergil Ulam is patient zero of the noocyte outbreak in Blood Music, being both the first infectee and the creator of the noocytes. He is killed in an attempt to prevent the outbreak.
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Patient Zero / int_19abbeb9	type	Patient Zero
Patient Zero / int_19abbeb9	comment	In The Smurfs, Grouchy Smurf is the original carrier of the Black Smurf virus that very nearly wipes out the Smurfs (old enough to be an Ur-Example of Zombie Apocalypse), and it's given as an explanation for why he is so grouchy (he's the first to catch the virus and the last to be cured). In the TV adaptation, it's Lazy Smurf who is Patient Zero of the Purple Smurf virus.
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Patient Zero / int_1bdeba5a	type	Patient Zero
Patient Zero / int_1bdeba5a	comment	In X-Men, reference is made to 'Patient Zero' of the mutant-killing Legacy Virus, who was apparently a mutant who contracted the virus and released it into its airborne form when he used his power for the first time after becoming infected. Eventually, Beast was able to devise a cure, but the only way to release it on a large scale was to 'infect' someone else with the cure, which would kill the host just like the original virus killed Patient Zero (although Colossus chose to use it anyway).
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Patient Zero / int_1c296808	type	Patient Zero
Patient Zero / int_1c296808	comment	In Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Franklin is Patient Zero for what will become known as Simian Flu. Unfortunately for all, it's an airborne virus, and he managed to infect a pilot before he died. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes reveals that only 1/10th of the population survives, most with a natural immunity to the virus.
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Patient Zero / int_1f278ec5	type	Patient Zero
Patient Zero / int_1f278ec5	comment	In Stubbs the Zombie, you play as a dead salesman reanimated by experimental fertilizer spread over his shallow grave as he turns a city into zombies.
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Patient Zero / int_227117b7	type	Patient Zero
Patient Zero / int_227117b7	comment	In Helix, the CDC rapid response team's best guess is that research scientist Peter Farragut is the first human infectee of NARVIK-B, The Virus and Synthetic Plague that turns its victims into super-strong Vectors compelled to infect others. However, the staff at Arctic Biosystems, the remote research base where the outbreak is occurring, refuse to tell the whole story, and from the rantings of Vectors, other scientists likely went before him.
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Patient Zero / int_2372359	type	Patient Zero
Patient Zero / int_2372359	comment	The Belgariad: A chapter midway through The Mallorean dives into And Now for Someone Completely Different, telling the story of a thieving sailor named Balsca. After stealing from and deserting his ship, he sleeps with a young woman afflicted with an unknown disease on the street. After waking up to the woman's grinning, dead face, he makes his way to the imperial city of Mal Zeth, where our protagonists are currently staying within the citadel. The plague spreads through the lower levels of the city, and things kind of go downhill from there.
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Patient Zero / int_238849d4	type	Patient Zero
Patient Zero / int_238849d4	comment	In Contagion (2011), Patient Zero is Beth Emhoff although technically the true Patient Zero is the chef that handled the infected pig as shown in a flashback at the end of the movie.
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Patient Zero / int_261c8d3f	type	Patient Zero
Patient Zero / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: In the "Treehouse of Horror XX" segment "Don't Have a Cow, Mankind" (a parody of 28 Days Later), Patient Zero is Kent Brockman, who is reporting on Krusty Burger's new sandwich; Burger 2, which is made from cows that have been fed other cows before slaughter, and unfortunately turns anyone who eats it into a rage zombie. Brockman is the first person to try it, which leads to him becoming infected on camera, and attacking Krusty, with the entire town being overrun by rage zombies in less than a month, as the infection only takes a few seconds to set in.
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Patient Zero / int_2ce94f43	type	Patient Zero
Patient Zero / int_2ce94f43	comment	In the Crossed arc "The Thin Red Line", it is revealed that there were several Patient Zeros for the virus in different parts of the world, suggesting an unnatural origin for the disease. The British Patient Zero plays a major role in the story, while others in France, Australia, and Chad are mentioned.
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Patient Zero / int_310d6df7	comment	In Stand Still, Stay Silent, the apparent Patient Zeroes of the Rash Illness that caused The End of the World as We Know It were a group of eleven illegal refugees arriving in Spain. Where they contracted the disease (and where they even came from) remained unknown, and by the second week after their arrival only four were still alive.
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Patient Zero / int_31a48eed	type	Patient Zero
Patient Zero / int_31a48eed	comment	The Outer Limits (1995): In the future shown in "Patient Zero", humanity is ravaged by a plague. A man travels back in time to the present to kill the plague's patient zero to prevent the plague from happening. Because patient zero turns out to be a beautiful woman, the man can't bring himself to kill her, and instead decides to protect her and prevent her from getting sick in the first place. Eventually, another time traveler shows up and reveals that in his efforts to prevent the girl from becoming sick, the man himself has become sick and become the new patient zero. The man agrees to be killed, which successfully stops the plague.
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Patient Zero / int_3558eaa2	type	Patient Zero
Patient Zero / int_3558eaa2	comment	In the Community episode "Epidemiology", Patient Zero is Pierce, being the first person to eat the tainted "taco meat".
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Patient Zero / int_36c59070	type	Patient Zero
Patient Zero / int_36c59070	comment	In one Justice League (2011) story, a failed assassination attempt on Lex Luthor releases a virus from his lab that causes those with super powers to become very sick and gives super powers to normal people which eventually kill them. The original purpose of the virus was to take super powers away. The Justice League hunts down Patient Zero, Armen Ikarus, who has grown into a monster with multiple superpowers, hoping that they can make a cure from them, but this doesn't work. Instead, a cure is made from Superman, who has antibodies against the virus because Lex Luthor had previously infected him with it, but his immune system had fought it off and he hadn't spread it to anyone.
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Patient Zero / int_3f6dc289	type	Patient Zero
Patient Zero / int_3f6dc289	comment	Parodied in part one of the Girl Meets World episode "Girl Meets the Ski Lodge" in the Rucas scenario when Maya says that Riley is suffering from "Gooey Sap Disease" and she's marked as patient zero, which in turn leads to a sudden death of the other couples (and Cupid Auggie) near her.
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Patient Zero / int_406c3ab	type	Patient Zero
Patient Zero / int_406c3ab	comment	In Felicity Floo Visits the Zoo, Felicity is the one who initially has a cold (or possibly the flu), but then she spreads it to all the animals.
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Patient Zero / int_41ee9b1d	type	Patient Zero
Patient Zero / int_41ee9b1d	comment	Slimecicle Cinematic Universe: In the credits of "We Spent 100 Days in a Hardcore Minecraft Apocalypse", Tommy is explicitly referred to as this, and was indeed the Patient Zero for the zombie virus.
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Patient Zero / int_440f812c	type	Patient Zero
Patient Zero / int_440f812c	comment	In Cooties, the patient zero for a kids-only zombie virus is Shelley Linker, who contracts the virus from an infected chicken nugget. Shelley goes on to infect a bully named Patriot and his friend Dink, the latter of which infects all but two kids in the school during recess (one because they were studying in the library, and the other because of post-pubescent immunity).
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Patient Zero / int_4ab3daf8	type	Patient Zero
Patient Zero / int_4ab3daf8	comment	Naturally this is the object of the scientists in Patient Zero (2018) in their hidden underground lab, with most of the human race infected. Unfortunately, it's the object of the more intelligent Infected as well, to eliminate this threat to their survival.
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Patient Zero / int_4c5fb19c	type	Patient Zero
Patient Zero / int_4c5fb19c	comment	ANNIE: Last Hope opens with an unnamed drunk in an alley getting ambushed by the crabs — small, insectoid critters carrying the undead virus — and quickly converting into a zombie. He might or might not be the first victim of the upcoming apocalypse, though, since in the next cutscene a hundred zombies suddenly appears in a party to infect everyone.
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Patient Zero / int_4d8b4c9e	type	Patient Zero
Patient Zero / int_4d8b4c9e	comment	In Pro Wrestlers vs. Zombies, killing the two zombies raised by ritual seemingly causes all of the other zombies to vanish.
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Patient Zero / int_5293b208	type	Patient Zero
Patient Zero / int_5293b208	comment	In Kamen Rider Ex-Aid, Patient Zero for the Bugster virus is Ex-Aid himself, Emu Hojo — in fact, he was infected a full year before the medical community even knew the virus existed, meaning he flew under the metaphorical radar. This explains quite a few mysteries surrounding his character, including why Emu could transform without undergoing the "compatibility surgery" (read: getting vaccinated) required to become a Kamen Rider and the apparent Split Personality between his compassionate doctor side and his hardcore gamer side. It turns out that Emu isn't the only Patient Zero for the Bugster virus; there is another one, Masamune Dan/Kamen Rider Cronus, who is revealed to have infected himself with the virus sixteen years ago, the same time Emu was infected. Thanks to that, he has the same level of immunity and compatibility as Emu, which is what allows him to transform into Cronus.
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Patient Zero / int_56261447	type	Patient Zero
Patient Zero / int_56261447	comment	Army of the Dead: Richards was a soldier involved with experiments at Area 51 that led to him becoming "Zeus", the Alpha King of the zombies that overran Las Vegas once he broke out of containment.
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Patient Zero / int_5640b091	type	Patient Zero
Patient Zero / int_5640b091	comment	In Zombies, Run!, Patient Zero is Patient 29 of 50 patients who received an injection that was supposed to make cells regenerate faster.
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Patient Zero / int_58808436	type	Patient Zero
Patient Zero / int_58808436	comment	Rika Furude of Higurashi: When They Cry.
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Patient Zero / int_59da62aa	type	Patient Zero
Patient Zero / int_59da62aa	comment	In the Fallout: New Vegas DLC Old World Blues, Patient Zero of the spore virus found in Vault 22 is a miniboss that can be encountered. There's also the Lobotomite Test Subject 1.
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Patient Zero / int_5f89c8b8	type	Patient Zero
Patient Zero / int_5f89c8b8	comment	PS238: An Alien Invasion targets humanity with a contagious virus intended to turn humanity into more of themselves, but due to a lack of No Biochemical Barriers the virus had to be tailored to the specific body of the first human the aliens abducted, which turns out to be Tyler. Luckily, he is put into stasis fast enough, and is later cured by a blood transfusion from someone with Ideal Illness Immunity.
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Patient Zero / int_5fa8e894	type	Patient Zero
Patient Zero / int_5fa8e894	comment	Subverted in the Newsflesh universe, in which there is no known Patient Zero for Kellis-Amberlee. There were not quite 100 living Marburg Amberlee patients when the Kellis virus was released and combined with MA, which had recently started spreading to those close to the original patients. Factoring in incubation periods, the combination had plenty of time to spread before the Rising began in multiple places almost simultaneously.
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Patient Zero / int_6059ad6b	type	Patient Zero
Patient Zero / int_6059ad6b	comment	Dutifully parodied by xkcd in the strip "Outbreak", in which patient zero is shot within five minutes and the threat ends before it goes anywhere.
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Patient Zero / int_6162cbeb	type	Patient Zero
Patient Zero / int_6162cbeb	comment	In Outbreak, Patient Zero is a wild monkey carrying the Motaba virus; the first human infectees are Jimbo Scott and the pet store owner he was trying to sell said monkey too — the latter of whom got scratched while handling the animal, the former of whom got spat on by the monkey while releasing it into the wild. Though Jimbo only ends up spreading the virus to his girlfriend before snuffing it, the pet store owner ends up infected with an airborne strain of Motaba... and ends up spreading it to everyone in his town.
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Patient Zero / int_69dabedf	comment	Vampyr (2018): The patient zero for the Skal epidemic (a plague that turns humans into mutated, feral vampires) is revealed to be Harriet Jones, who was being experimented by Dr. Swansea using vampire blood to cure the Spanish influenza. What he didn't expect is that Jones was also an Walking Wasteland possessed by the Red Queen to spread disease and punish mankind for its inequities.
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Patient Zero / int_73d7930f	type	Patient Zero
Patient Zero / int_73d7930f	comment	In Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Section 31 creates a devastating virus that afflicts Changelings, hoping to bring about a Changeling genocide. The group infects Odo without his knowledge. The virus is spread by linking, so Odo unwittingly passes the pathogen to other Changelings while in the Great Link.
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Patient Zero / int_747d9a6f	type	Patient Zero
Patient Zero / int_747d9a6f	comment	The reanimated corpse of Doctor Alex Mercer, a.k.a. Blacklight, protagonist of [PROTOTYPE]. Elizabeth Greene is also one, carrying her own Redlight virus.
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Patient Zero / int_75d38220	type	Patient Zero
Patient Zero / int_75d38220	comment	Zombies Christmas Carol has Scrooge contract the Hungry Death from a horse, which rotted after administering the bite, and then he became the carrier to the rest of the world.
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Patient Zero / int_81f5d35d	type	Patient Zero
Patient Zero / int_81f5d35d	comment	The Kamen Rider series has two examples: In Kamen Rider Ex-Aid, Patient Zero for the Bugster virus is Ex-Aid himself, Emu Hojo — in fact, he was infected a full year before the medical community even knew the virus existed, meaning he flew under the metaphorical radar. This explains quite a few mysteries surrounding his character, including why Emu could transform without undergoing the "compatibility surgery" (read: getting vaccinated) required to become a Kamen Rider and the apparent Split Personality between his compassionate doctor side and his hardcore gamer side. It turns out that Emu isn't the only Patient Zero for the Bugster virus; there is another one, Masamune Dan/Kamen Rider Cronus, who is revealed to have infected himself with the virus sixteen years ago, the same time Emu was infected. Thanks to that, he has the same level of immunity and compatibility as Emu, which is what allows him to transform into Cronus. In the second season of Kamen Rider Amazons, the protagonist Chihiro/Kamen Rider Amazon Neo is revealed to be the source of Lysogenic cells virus that causes normal humans to mutate into a new breed of mindless man-eating Amazons.
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Patient Zero / int_829f69b4	comment	The Patient Zero in Afterlife with Archie is technically Jughead's dog Hot Dog after he is brought back to life by magic, but the first human zombie is Jughead after Hot Dog bites him.
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Patient Zero / int_8d81bb26	comment	In the NCIS episode "Homesick", the team searches for the origin of a mysterious epidemic among the children of soldiers on Christmas Eve, with over thirty kids being infected and an elderly dry-cleaner having died of it. The origin turns out to be a Marine Captain who had come back from a special assignment to Africa not long before, who plays Santa Claus on Military Christmas parties and who infected the dry-cleaner when collecting his Santa suit. The epidemic turns out to be a meningococcus strain only found in Africa, and with that knowledge, all the infected kids can be saved.
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Patient Zero / int_9045b1b7	comment	World War Z plays with the trope a bit. "Patient Zero" is apparently a young boy in China, who was diving for salvage in the reservoir where his family's home village used to be and came up bleeding heavily and missing a toe. If we take everything in prequel-of-sorts The Zombie Survival Guide to be canon for World War Z, the only possible source of the infection is another zombie, possibly from a former Chinese military biological warfare programme. However, The Zombie Survival Guide seems to exist in a universe where the zombie virus is a known, scientifically documented phenomenon with a long history of outbreaks stretching back at least to Ancient Egypt, yet in World War Z, humanity is almost entirely blindsided. The precise origin of the outbreak is therefore unclear, with "Patient Zero" merely being the first known Zombie Infectee.
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Patient Zero / int_92b5e702	comment	In Zoombies, patient zero is a monkey named Sandy, who dies and reanimates in a lab. The monkey then spreads the virus to three other monkeys offscreen. Once the monkeys escape the lab, the rest of the zooâ€™s animals become infected more or less instantly. Another similarly premised movie, Aquarium of the Dead, has an octopus as the patient zero, although the rest of the animals becoming infected is At least justified given this would be a waterborne disease.
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Patient Zero / int_9c33b8ab	comment	In the Sliders episode "Fever", Quinn's double is Patient Zero for the "Q", with a million-dollar bounty on his head. It turns out that the plague is nothing more than a hard-hitting bacterial infection, which is lethal here because this alternate Earth never developed penicillin.
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Patient Zero / int_a183d57f	comment	In the Futurama episode "Cold Warriors", Fry is patient zero of the common cold which had been eradicated centuries ago. He carried the virus after being frozen for a thousand years spreading to the Planet Express crew and Manhattan.
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Patient Zero / int_a33754fa	comment	The memorable opening scene of Resident Evil: Afterlife with the J Pop Girl with Thousand-Yard Stare standing in the rain at the Shibuya Scramble Crossing who suddenly chomps on a passing Japanese salaryman, followed by the lights going out across Tokyo and then the rest of the world.
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Patient Zero / int_a44b76ea	comment	In World War Z, Patient Zero is what the main characters are searching for. They never find it.
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Patient Zero / int_a6492af2	comment	In The Stand, Charles Campion can be considered Patient Zero, in that he's the one who gets out of the base and spreads the superflu virus along his path from California to Texas.
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Patient Zero / int_a8639b13	comment	In the Fablehaven series, Ephira the tree spirit was the first victim of the demon Kurisock's corrupting power, the Shadow Plague. She'd been corrupted for a while (due to a supernatural bargain with Kurisock) before getting her hands on an Amplifier Artifact that allowed her to spread The Corruption to others.
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Patient Zero / int_abd5699	comment	Naturally, being a game where the goal is to kill the world with a disease, Plague Inc. makes mention of a Patient Zero. In a side event the CDC may try seeking Patient Zero out in hopes of better understanding the disease.
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Patient Zero / int_b2edd00b	comment	In Zombieland, Patient Zero is said to have been a person who ate a bad hamburger. Mad cow disease then became mad human disease.
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Patient Zero / int_bd1137ca	comment	The pimp in the Illuminatus! trilogy, who is unaware that he carries the deadly virus and who sparks a panicked manhunt. Fortunately, he has gone to ground, terrified of arrest after the death of a working girl and after having acquired top-level secrets. He is found dead in a cave.
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Patient Zero / int_bf42e29d	comment	The GOTY Edition of Hitman (2016) brought in the Patient Zero campaign, which has 47 and Diana race against the clock to stop a virus spreading. The campaign starts in a hotel in Bangkok, which has 47 kill the cult leader who has created the virus. However, 47's actions triggers a Dead Man's Switch, and he must get a vial of the virus from an author in Italy, Sapienza, who plans to give it away to a cult member. You then move onto Colorado to take out mercenaries via sniper rifle in a farm-turned military compound, and kills the doctor testing the virus on various mercenaries (whom you must also take out). Then we come to Hokkaido, Japan, to kill the man who wants to spread the virus. That last mission is called "Patient Zero" also. You also need to kill any other people infected.
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Patient Zero / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: Jamie in "The Empty Child"/"The Doctor Dances" is Patient Zero of the gas-mask zombie plague. In "Sleep No More", much is made of the Patient Zero of the Sandman plague, the first person Dr. Rassmussen tested his anti-sleep experiments on. It turns out to be an Invoked Trope, designed to give the Doctor a narrative where he stopped the plague and preventing him from discovering the real vector: the recording you just watched.
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Patient Zero / int_c75d67d	comment	In Person of Interest, Finch refers to himself as this in regard to knowledge of the Machine, as he built it. This isn't an actual disease, but since the government tends to arrange for fatal accidents to happen to anyone they think is even considering leaking information about the Machine's existence to the public, it's no less deadly.
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Patient Zero / int_ca5cb239	comment	Patient Zero of the Blue Pox in Circle of Magic: Briar's Book was a stupid mage who became infected after improperly disposing of a failed weight loss potion. She was discovered dead in her study.
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Patient Zero / int_cbc866c0	comment	Going into the Unknown revolves around a zombie virus outbreak that wipes out a town. According to the backstory, the first Zombie Infectee is a young girl who contracted an unidentified viral strain, and the resident doctor, Adam, decide to keep her in a psychiatric ward when she mindlessly tries attacking him. And then she escapes and infects everyone, and the outbreak quickly goes out of control.
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Patient Zero / int_d0e3026a	comment	In Episode 5 of What Ifâ€¦? (2021), "What If... Zombies?!", Janet Van Dyne is revealed to be this. Hank Pym goes to the Quantum Realm to save her, just like in Ant-Man and the Wasp, but by the time he gets to her, she's already been infected. Once she and Hank return to Earth, they end up unleashing a Zombie Apocalypse that even the Avengers couldn't stop from spreading.
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Patient Zero / int_d29e22a2	comment	In the Sanctuary (2007) episode "Pavor Nocturnus", Magnus is the first carrier of the virus that turned almost everyone into cannibalistic monsters.
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Patient Zero / int_d69208d2	comment	An episode of Codename: Kids Next Door has a little girl named "Patient C" play this. She's apparently supposed to be infected with cooties, with the (entirely male) science staff using Numbah Four as justification for her being infected. Numbah Four has extremely large, swollen lips after eating coconut logs even though he's violently allergic.
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Patient Zero / int_d9c602eb	comment	South Park: In "Pinkeye", Kenny becomes a zombie and causes an undead outbreak. He gets killed, and the originally undead return to life. The boys are actually told to kill the original zombie, and not just kill random zombies. This news comes a little too late, as they had already killed half the town by this point. In "World War Zimmerman", Cartman believes Token to be patient zero, but this is just Cartman's racism. "The Pandemic Special" shows Randy was the Patient Zero for the COVID-19 Pandemic after he had sex with a pangolin back during his trip to China in the previous season.
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Patient Zero / int_da3eef3a	comment	Melissa Pearce in Parasite Eve. Late in the normal game, you find out that Aya's dead sister was actually the original, true Eve. The original appears in the optional dungeon as the True Final Boss.
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Patient Zero / int_df244197	comment	AlternateHistory.com: Patient Zero for the Eurasian pandemic of SPID (AIDS by another name) in For All Time was a Soviet soldier who contracted it from a blood transfusion while in the Congo, then unwittingly spread it by donating his blood every three weeks. Thanks to constant warfare and the ineffencies of that country's blood donation system, by 2002 35% of the Eurasian continent has it. In 1989: Wipe-out, two lab workers become the index patients for an airborne strain of Ebola Zaire. Three weeks later, over 99 percent of humanity is dead.
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Patient Zero / int_df7e11cd	comment	In Manly Guys Doing Manly Things, Patient Zero for the Nomura Virus was NieR. The related anti-Nomura effect Ryu suffered from was a curse rather than a contagious disease, and the ponifying effect that Walter suffers from was a poison, so while both are the first known patients, their respective syndromes won't spread.
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Patient Zero / int_e80fa454	comment	One of the abilities of Beatrix from Battleborn which is actually named Patient Zero turns either herself or a targeted into a contagion carrier that deals damage to nearby enemies for a short time whilst also having their speed buffed. Her ultimate Outbreak as well has her plague a targeted enemy into a contagion carrier. While affected, the plagued enemy lose health, are wounded, and the healing they receive is reduced. These effects spread among nearby enemies.
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Patient Zero / int_ea4f62db	comment	In the Family Guy episode "Halloween on Spooner Street", Quagmire is shown to have contracted every STD known to man, which includes being patient zero for gonorrhea.
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Patient Zero / int_ea91d27a	comment	In The Killer That Stalked New York, a 1950 film Very Loosely Based on the 1947 New York City smallpox outbreak, patient zero is Sheila Bennet, a diamond smuggler who brings smallpox into New York City from Cuba. The authorities scramble to find her after the outbreak has started in order to keep her from spreading the disease to even more people and to be able to find out who she has already been in contact with. This is quite a change from the Real Life outbreak, where patient zero was not a smuggler but a regular tourist, did not get infected in Cuba but in Mexico, and was not the subject of a contact-tracing manhunt but was rather admitted to hospital before the outbreak really began.
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Patient Zero / int_ed72b3c9	comment	Trauma Center (Atlus): The final chapter in Trauma Team is even called Patient Zero. It involves finding the girl whose blood originally carried both Rosalia and its antibody.
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Patient Zero / int_efce8866	comment	Infinity Wars has a card named Patient Zero. Sure enough, he's the origin of the zombie nanovirus on his world.
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Patient Zero / int_f502a38a	comment	In The Smurfs (1981), Lazy Smurf is the original carrier of the Purple Smurf virus that very nearly wipes out the Smurfs. In the comic it was based on (itself old enough to be an Ur-Example of Zombie Apocalypse), it's Grouchy Smurf who is Patient Zero of the Black Smurf virus, and it's given as an explanation for why he is so grouchy (he's the first to catch the virus and the last to be cured).
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Patient Zero / int_f94f0f08	comment	Economy Watch: David was Patient Zero of the Economic Virus in Episode 11, "Night of The Economic Dead".
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Patient Zero / int_fef54eee	comment	The events of Eden Green are made possible by Tedrin, the first human infectee of an alien needle virus. Since it renders him immortal (and insane), he's only too happy to spread it to others.
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iZombie / int_441bd048	type	Patient Zero
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