-Officers of Unit 731 releases all known samples days before surrender is to occur, starting in Japan itself, Russia, and China with thoughts of national seppuku in their head.
-Tuberculosis, Typhoid, Cholera, Dysentery, and Bubonic Plague run rampant in crowded ruins with filthy water conditions. Infections on Russian trains spread the contagion to Europe, by the time the USSR realizes the extent of their exposure to an intentional biological attack the first passengers are already in Leningrad
-Continental Europe soon succumbs to half a dozen resistant and virulent diseases not seen in a generation as sanitation and food preperatory facilities are few and far between
-India, Burma, and southeastern Asia are also hit soon afterwards
-By end of 1945 over 25 million around the world are dead and the US is screening all ships in and out of contamination zones, Hawaii is affected but miraculously the continental US is spared
-Finnish border sealed with refugees forced to turn back or shot on sight, Sweden and Norway give tacit assistance for the sake of survival
-Swiss and Spanish borders also sealed
-South America restricts trade with contaminated nations
-Australia and New Zealand permit only their own military vessels to return to port while trade is done entirely through the United States
-By the summer of 1946 there are over 150 million dead and many more infected, Africa becomes a site of rampant infection that will take generations to clean up. US declares Hawaii decontaminated and moves to do the same for Kyushu, Shikoku, and Hokkaido with Honshu needing longer. France works on restoring infrastructure but loses over 15% of her population and local trade in affected areas and global trade slows down dramatically for fear of infection
-By summer of 1950 much of the world is decontaminated though there are 500 million fewer people in the world, mostly from Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. USSR loses over 10 million people mostly in Europe, her refocused efforts into biological research make her a dominant force in the field of medicine in coming decades
-Anyone involved in Unit 731 is suspect and many are executed simply for guilt by association, worldwide treaty banning biological weapons will be signed in 1953 in Seoul, Republic of Korea the day after the country is reunified