1975 - 76 ATBW Flu Outbreak

The 1975 - 76 ATBW Flu Outbreak was a deadly outbreak of a flu-like parvovirus that first broke out in the Thomas Langile Hotel (now the lots of the headquarters of Amory The Bad Woman Studios and Region Entertainment) in June of 1975 and ending in April of 1976. It infected 114 people in the hotel, but everyone infected survived the virus. Everyone in the hotel was quarantined for safety and the quarantine eventually expanded throughout ATBW City.

The virus was first reported in the Thomas Langile Hotel where some of ATBW's camera crew and other employees lived in while working at ATBW Studios, where at least 3 people in the hotel became infected with an unknown flu-like virus from an unknown cause. The virus was eventually discovered inside one of the hotel's air ducts on the night of June 26, 1975, and a virus that had never been discovered before was discovered.

Despite the Flu in it's name, the virus was not an actual flu strain, or even closely related to it. After further analysis, the new flu strain was actually a strain of parvovirus, which despite being such, mimicked Influenza. The virus ended in April of 1976 and there had been no cases or any further reports of the virus's presence ever since.

June 1975
The outbreak reportedly first began sometime on June 17, 1975 when staff working for ATBW Label Networks contracted an unknown virus with flu-like symptoms which in turn eventually became fatal, thus it's name ATBW Flu. On June 26, 1975, the flu-like virus was actually discovered to be an entirely new strain of parvovirus, a one that had never been discovered or even known in any way. Another, entirely separate strain of parvovirus (fifth disease) was also coincidentally discovered the exact same year, but was completely unrelated to the one at ATBW Label Networks Headquarters.

The ATBW Flu had a 10% fatality rate and was an airborne virus that could survive for days on hard surfaces. It's main symptoms were many symptoms similar to that of Influenza, which were fever, chills, nausea, congestion, runny nose, headache, head congestion, chest pressure, and fatigue, plus a few other symptoms not seen in Influenza including loss of smell, pneumonia, vomiting, conjunctivitis in one or both eyes, short-term vision loss, and shortness of breath. It was mainly spread by the hotel's air ventilation system, and despite it's fatal symptoms, everyone managed to survive.