World War Z 'Warnings' Summary

World War Z’s chapter two, Warnings, is a collection of interviews by several people all over the world. The interviewer talks with a doctor, a smuggler, and a spy among other people who had witnessed the outbreak first hand. Each person tells their stories of encounters with the “un-dead”. They give very good details as they recall the incidents. In the first section the interviewer talks to Dr. Kwang Jingshu. The doctor recalls his first encounter of the outbreak was on an emergency call to New Dachang where seven villagers were sick. In this section we are introduced to “Patient Zero”.  Dr. Kwang tells how he went to examine the patient, who was a twelve year old boy, and he was so wild and violent that he had to order a few men to help hold the boy down. He described how the boys arm snapped and eventually was ripped off during his struggles. Confused and scared, Dr. Kwang runs from the room and calls up his friend, Dr. Gu Wen Kuei. Dr. Gu worked for the Institute of Infectious Disease at Chongqing University, and he told him about the outbreak. After the conversation ended Dr. Kwang felt that there were more cases like the one he just witnessed. As help arrived he called his daughter to tell her to go overseas with her husband and stay as long as possible.

 Dr. Kwang left that room thinking the craziness he just witnessed was an isolated incident but his friend, Dr. Gu’s seemed to know different. Although he is the start of the outbreak for us as readers, we know that the outbreak was already out there and spreading before it got to “Patient Zero”. I like the details of Dr. Kwang’s story. It gives me a great visual of what was going on in the hospital.