All the following happened in the span of a year and a half:
Over 380,000,000(5% of 7.6 billion) people on the planet were infected with the Metaphage(Meta Virus) and became Homo-Animalia or "Metas".
The government opened up centers that allowed people to freely undergo the transition to animal hybrids. However only 3 of these centers in the world opened up in the U.S, Mexico, and Great Britain. Less than 500 transformations were preformed. Not even a month later the centers were shut down and the drug that was used for the transformations were banned everywhere. This was in response to murders, robberies and rapes that were attributed to Metas. A new prison for animal-people was created: The Meta Detention Center, a labor prison specifically for Metas, nicknamed "The Zoo". An anthro-human was sent there if(more accurately when) they violate the "Human Protection Law" which stated that any Meta who became uncontrollable or a danger to others will be sent to M.D.C.
Over 800,000 Metas are currently incarcerated in the M.D.C.
Over 20,000 Metas died in the year long riot.
Over 90,000 Metas were either killed or committed suicide.
Metas are feared/hated and persecuted. Meta and human sexual relationships are practically nonexistent due to {HPL-1(imprisonment)} HPL-2, that states Meta-Meta/Meta-Human procreation is illegal without official government approval(which is extremely hard to acquire) and punishable by death with mandatory abortion.