The parts of North America that are in the US.
The United States of America (commonly abbreviated to the United States, the US, the USA, America, and the States) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west, across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Pacific and Caribbean.
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Film canon[]
During the Original Outbreak of the Rage Virus in Great Britain, the U.S. and U.K. were already embroiled in the War on Terror and the War in Iraq. The President at the time was George W. Bush. The day before broadcasts in the country ceased, there were reports that the Infection had surfaced in Paris, France, and New York, US. (28 Days Later (film)). However, these reports were presumably false.
Eleven weeks after the original outbreak's twenty-eighth day, by which time most of the Infected in England had died of starvation, the US Army led a NATO military force into London to repatriate the city in Operation Rising Dawn. However, twenty-eight weeks after the Original Outbreak, when a Second Wave of the Rage Virus started in the security zone, the US Army after losing control of the situation resorted to exterminating and massacring both the infected and uninfected residents and firebombing the green zone. (28 Weeks Later)
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28 Days Later (comic series)[]
Just before Britain was quarantined to contain the Rage virus, there was mass paranoia in the US of Infection spreading to America. The irrational panic caused a stampede of travelers at JFK International Airport in New York, killing roughly 1,000 people. The FAA eventually redirected American air carriers from flying to Great Britain to enforce the Quarantine and grounded all international air travel.
Several weeks after the Outbreak, the U.S. Navy had taken the lead in enforcing the maritime quarantine around the British isles. The U.S. Marine Corps under NATO Command had begun initial expeditionary operations in Scotland where Rage Victims remained alive due to having been infected later than those starving. Unbeknownst to the larger military and public, the Central Intelligence Agency had sent infiltration teams to round up infected and non-infected survivors for the purpose of researching the Rage Virus to see if it could be weaponized. The CIA used prisoners of war from the Middle East as test subjects as well.