MacDonald is a Canadian army veteran, and is among the first who saw zombies outside of China. He and his team were investigating the drug trade in Kyrgyzstan when they found chewed up human remains outside a cave. Inside, MacDonald saw a zombie, which had been severed at the torso, but was still moving and trying to bite him. No one had heard about the zombie virus at the time, and MacDonald was completely unnerved by these events. However, back in Canada, his report was dismissed as PTSD. MacDonald’s account describes the complete terror of first encountering a zombie since its behavior is so foreign to anything people are familiar with or expect. Also, it shows that armies and governments around the world carelessly ignored early reports, which led to the problem eventually becoming unmanageable.