It was dusty and overgrown in the lab, the ivy was covering most of the outside of the building, it was pouring in through the boarded up cracks in the wood panels in place of glass, and the whole place smelled musty.

Th laboratory was decimated, equipment was upturned, what was stainless steel was now chard black in places or looked like it was covered in snow.

Bunsen burners were scattered across the floor in pieces and disturbing patched of what could be blood was smeared across what would have been a white polished floor.

What a mess.

The infection grew through the population like wild fire, at first just picking out the weak and vulnerable, then moving on to people who were social in society, that meant retail and care staff, then before you knew it no one was safe, it was like a swarm enveloping the earth, no one escaped.

At one point various vaccines were on trial but nothing came of them, it was quickly found out that no-one was immune. Panic spread. Countries fell under the almighty infection until there was no person left alive, I say person as the animals were left to thrive.  Species that people had never meet before came down from the trees, out of the mountains and popped their heads above the waves of the oceans.

Emissions became less and the air smelt better, no more smog from funnel  chimneys or the smell of diesel from cars, life was appearing everywhere even where you didn’t expect it. Sharks in the Irish sea and confused deer around Edinburgh, it was nice to see nature thrive in that way.

Some animals crossed countries and birds migration patterns were massively disturbed as the weather changed.

With man not able to evolve naturally the animals did instead, and as man predicted, it was the monkeys that were the quickest to develop.

Except now there is a new strain of infection which is spreading through the seas, if the dolphins get it then the world is seriously screwed.