More people are preparing for the possibility of an actual Zombie uprising and Apocalypse… ready or not, here they come!
Both in a previous ZZN article and in the book The Zombie Autopsies by Dr. Steven C. Schlozman M.D, the possibility of the proteins known prions (the critters that caused Mad Cow Disease) creating a scientifically plausible Zombie outbreak are explored.
Near the end of Dr. Schlozman’s book, he provides a time line of the spread of the outbreak, and it starts at the end of April, 2011. Though Dr. Schlozman claims his book is fictional, other scientists have discovered that prions are spreading in a new way: through the air.
This could be a case of art imitating life imitating art, but the similarities between this new airborne threat and the one in The Zombie Autopsies is too creepy to ignore.
Let us consider the possibility that the human race may be in more danger than we realize through looking at some terrifying facts:
- Scientists have recently discovered that mind-controlling parasites have been around for millions of years.
According to a recent article on livescience.com:
Another case of parasite mind control involves the fungus Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, which essentially turns ants into zombies. It maneuvers the insects
into biting down on the major veins of the undersides of leaves just before they die — the fungus then rapidly grows a stalk from their victims’ heads, releasing spores to infect more ants.
Now scientists have discovered what might be ancient evidence of such mind-control-induced death grips — scars on a roughly 48-million-year-old leaf.
“We are now realizing that half of life on Earth is parasitic — each free-living organism has at least one parasite.” said researcher David Hughes, a behavioral ecologist at Harvard University.
2. Mind altering parasites have infected humans in the past. These parasites may contribute to such mental illnesses as schizophrenia. In fact, in a similar article it was revealed parasites may be infecting up to half of the world’s human population right now.
T. gondii infects both wild and domestic cats, but it is carried by many warm-blooded mammals. One recent study showed that the parasite makes normally cautious rats outgoing and more prone to engage in reckless behavior, such as hanging around areas frequently marked by cat urine, making the rats easy targets.
Scientists estimate that the parasite has infected about 3 billion people, or about half of the human population. Studies by researchers in the Czech Republic have suggested T. gondii might have subtle but long-term effects on its human hosts. The parasite is thought to have different, and often opposite effects in men versus women, but both genders appear to develop a form of neuroticism called “guilt proneness.”
Other studies have also found links between the parasite and schizophrenia. T. gondii infection is known to damage astrocytes, support cells in the brain that are also affected during schizophrenia. Pregnant women with high levels of antibodies to the parasite are also more likely to give birth to children who will develop the disorder.
-Livescience.com
3. A variant of prion called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), attacks humans and leaves its victims violently insane, 
not unlike those found in the films Zombieland and 28 Days Later. Usually prions are transmitted through blood, saliva, feces and urine, but also through aerosols in mice. This means that a protein that affects the structure of the brain and is untreatable and fatal in nearly 100% of cases found is now airborne. Most of the plagues throughout history have spread via airborne methods.
4. If prions can be spread through blood and saliva and historically Zombies attack the same way, is it too far of a reach that humans infected with a brain destroying prion that causes them to become violently mentally ill may bite others, potentially spreading said prion?
5. In The Zombie Autopsies the infection (which, again, was to start at the end of this month) was an airborne strain of influenza fused with prions that selectively destroyed anything human in those infected until only functions vital to survival were left. The majority of this book was scientifically valid and based in fact.
Would an airborne prion that was combined with any of history’s nasty viruses or mind-controlling parasites be enough to start the Zombie Apocalypse? Possibly.
Remember that in both The Zombie Survival Guide and The Zombie Combat Manual it states that the Zombie Plague started with small outbreaks all over the world. Many were too small to be covered or were covered-up by the mass media in a combined effort with world governments. With this in mind, it is more than possible that the Zombie Plague has already begun.
Maybe it is time to start taking those Zombie Survival Preparations a little more seriously. Fortunately for you, ZZN has several resources such as articles, an entire section and book reviews dedicated to Zombie Survival. It’s not too late to save yourself and those you care about!
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Look i believe anything is possible under the right conditions but a zombie outbreak like in the movies isnt going to happen but something similar could like a mutated form of rabbies could give similar symptoms but dead human cells regenerating and bringing dead bodies back to life could only be done by GOD OR SATAN nothing in nature would do that ,the problem with most people today is to much t.v and reading comic books ,they want it to happen so there lives would be moor exciting ,i mean the world is already bad enough with all the wars and murders and people being homeless and children starving ,we dont need it any worse than it is believe me i seen all these things and if any of these people would have too they might think different.
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this isnt true april 2012 already past,but i do believe it could happen. did any one hear bout that guy eating the homeless dudes face half way offf ,or the chick who ate her baby in the other case where the dude ate his roomates heart and brain,but hey i know some people want this to happen just to see what its llike or to get to shoot someone.rember though god is whatching over us
ok this whole thing is bullshit………the only cases they have had is the naked nigger eating the face half off of the homless guy and thats it. all the other shit u heard isnt true its all rumors ppl want u to believe all this but watch… last year a guy claimed the world was ending one day when i was at a friends and he said it on the news and everything. it was supposed to happen the day after the day he reported it. me and some friends were up all night having a party just to see if it would happen and because we wanted to get fucked up lol… the world is not gunna come to an end and there sure as hell aint gunna be no dam zombies!!!! now if there was a break out like zombies or something like it…..then ima have some fun trippin and killin some but its 99.99999999999999999% and a half and repeating this shit isnt going to happen…so stop believing what you heard about all the other cases cuz they aint true and if u see a zombie or u start to see ur whole town eating eachother and going ape shit and even if its on the news u email me and let me know plz
I know this was last year and all, but with everything developing lately (see: Miami Cannibal), people’s interests are certainly piqued again. I wonder if it’s just a case of the media covering more stories like this and perpetuating the hype or if there is actually a higher incidence of these bizarre zombie-like stories coming out: Loved the read, I’ve got one of my own about the developments last month in the US, if ya want a follow-up
Cheers. : http://www.kmpnd.com/2012/06/08/zombie-survival-and-miami-cannibals/
there was a zombie in miami and he ate the face of another man. he was on bath salt but it was not the drug it was a virus. its called LQP-79 a deadly virus. so he was a zombie. sciencetist are trying to look for a cure plus there were 7 cases just like this in the past 2 weeks. the virus eats your skin away, destroys the organs and affects the brain waves to make you hungrey for human flesh. no body knows how he got the virus and its highly contagious. it had spread to number of individuals, but they are quarantine.
P.S he took 4 to 6 bullets dont think “im ready” and if you think im lying go on google look it up.
so the war against the dead has just started and i thought this will never happend but for now the police is in control of the indiciduals sciencetist are on a race to find the cure, until its too late. miami might be the first city to fall. this is all a fact my second paragraph is an opinion but this is only the beginning.
so dont think “hell yeah ZOMBIES are here” .
High adredaline, blood flow is high and super human “almost”, ( thats what the drug he was on does)
so getting shot so many times makes sense. You die slower
german ur dumb as hell dude there was not 7 cases in the past two weeks nigga……. and he only took four bullets and yes it was bath salts bec they tested his black ass and found it and bath salts give u the capability of not feeling any pain and makes ur brain fucked up while ur on it everyone needs to stfu about this whole thing there isnt going to be a fuckin zombie out break and if there is one and u know about it before me……..u are more than welcome to email me at [email protected]…..hit it up ppl!!!
Here’s the difference though a person infected by a disease who just goes insane is NOT a zombie. The term zombie specifically details a reanimated corpse. So a living, breathing human being who’s just insane from a disease is NOT a zombie. Rabies causes mammals to go crazy and attack without warning but we don’t classify a rabid dog or cat as a zombie.
The correct term would be “Infected”, however some might argue that the original term came from the Haitian Voodoo Zombie which did come back from the “dead” but has been shown to be someone simply suffering from Tetrodotoxin poison.
Good article, Zombies is my thing to. I’ve read and read about “what could” And I do believe that in the future something like this will happen. We really don’t know what the government and scientists do and keep from the public. It’s something to truly think about. Most people think im stupid when I talk about it. But I do believe it’ll happen… And if it does, not only the dead you have to worry about, But human beings as well, People killing people for food, weapons, ect..
Good article again. Thanks
Now you have the science to bring to the argument! Go forth and fight the good fight my friend! Remember: BETTER SAFE THAN ZOMBIE!
I think that whould be coll to be with the word with zombies becuse if you are a kid when you are stile alive you get to have a gun a kill zombies
Ok no offense here but i have to say this, are you a moron? Look I personally love zombies as much as the next man but in all honesty, if there was to be said “zombie apocalypse” most of the world would die off within the first few weeks of outbreak. Let me ask you this, do you have it in you to walk up to your mom, dad, sisters, brothers, close friends, etc. and put a bullet in their heads? Secondly if you got past that traumatic trial, which i highly doubt most people would, would you be able to live in dead silence for most of your life? Beacuse if I recall correctly Max Brooks states that zombies generally have interest in where sounds come from, meaning if you were to so much as sneeze and just 1 heard it more would follow, remember zombies travel in packs aside from the occasional wanderer. now i could go on and on about the perils of a zombie apocalypse but when it all gets boiled down the only real survivors would be the few who could kill their own kind and move on and the ones who already have (prisoners), and if it came down to should I: A. Blow my brains out, B.Get eaten alive by savage mindless beings, or C. Trust these rapists and murderers to watch my back? Just a piece of reality for people.
P.S.-All the “badasses” who say well i would just steal a car load it with guns and kill anything insight by myself, ya you will probably be one of the ones getting bone raped by the hordes in week 1
Have a nice day and I hope you either enjoyed this or hated it I really dont care, if you didnt like eat well eat my shit swallow my farts and watch me drink my tall glass of Not Giving A Fuck
if you enjoyed this well smile because you probably wont live long enough to see flying cars or the return of boybands 
Oh ya and to the guy who posted this never give a kid a gun its not Call of Duty zombies these guys will rip you a new asshole…..literally. Only with proper weapons training would I agree to your statement 
but just think the second you piss that kid off guess who he will want to kill…….come on think hard……..YES!!!! IT’S YOU!!!!
I just want to add something about the first point about the fungi. As far as we are aware, something like that can only grow in the brains of cold-blooded creatures. Fungus can’t seem to grow and survive in a temperature of approximately 36C+… The core temp of a human is around 37.5C.
Just thought I’d go all nerdy for a sec.
I don’t know if anyone else has mentioned something similar, I am too lazy to read all the comments
And yes, it is past April 2011, but it shall be soon, friends…soon…
Perhaps the date was the ONLY thing fictional in The Zombie Autopsies…
robert ur the one who should prolly be killed for talking all that shit lol……..im not trying to be bad or hard or anything but i have killed someone before and never went to jail or anything for it bec i never got caught and i have stolen a car or two and sold it underground……..and if i had family members or friends coming at me with blood flowing out of there mouth or anything who knows i might just get away as fast as possible or knowing my self and the people that know me……if i got somethin like that coming at me ya im gunna put a fucking bullet in the god dam head i aint even playin
OK, its past April 2011.. And nothing has happened, so how do you explain that??
Easy… Civil unrest this past summer in Egypt with a full media blackout (Zombie Outbreak being put under control?), small plagues riddle Africa and small islands around the world… etc. etc. etc.
I never said the full blown world wide spread would happen, I said it may START then…
LaLa its because its not the end of 2012 yet thats wen the end of the world is supposed to happen and if there were to be a zombie out break thats wen it will most likely be the worst to
Well, I hate to say it but the complete collapse of civilization would improve my lifestyle…and i have spent years studying weapons, tactics, fortifications and general survival…….so, here is lesson one from the survival bible:
Make a weapon!….tape a kitchen knife to a broom stick, wrap a brick in a shirt, carry hairspray and a lighter…..any thing that makes you more deadly will help…do this FIRST, before you leave the house or try to get home……get a bat or a sharpened stick or something….after that its just a matter of learning to enjoy the end of the world….forget visa cards, college degree’, family connections or winning lotto tickets…this will be a daily exercise in smart, tough and determined…so, enjoy!
Excellent advise! Thanks for sharing!
Well…. A lighter and some hairspray will not roast the brain.. And if you are that close, you might as well use hand-v-teeth fighting..
Riiiight…
Well for starters… it hasn’t happened so… yeahhh…
Sencondly, if they have been around for thousands of years, as you said, why hasen’t the apocalypse come before?
Thirdly, it’s a bit different controling a simple ant’s mind that a human. Our brain is too powerful and neural signals are too strong.
Lastly, you said the Zombie Apocalypse has already been happening in isolated incidents around the world, being covered up. If this is so, why are aeroplanes still allowed to fly there? Why are the borders still open? Why is that country still allowed to buy and sell goods abroad?
BECAUSE NOTHING HAS HAPPENED!
Are you some 30 year old fat arse, sitting in your chair, watching Zombie movies online? I would guess so! You have no life or common sense or even half a brain if you think it’s ‘all some conspiracy’. I like Zombie films as much as the next guy but you seriously need to start living in the real world. I’d start by changing your pants (I mean underpants if you are some ignorant American), losing ten stone and kicking the habit of watching Zombie films. Maybe therapy will teach you what is real and what is fiction.
You are with out a doubt the most stupidest person I have ever met and I hope that if the Zombie Apocalypse ever does come (Like it will) you will be the first to be eaten alive… then I’ll ram a shotgun in your mouth and blow your head off…
Stop trying to spread panic in unstable individuals…
Jeez
Wow… boy did you call me out. Yup. you nailed it. I’m a 30 year old guy. How dare you point out my age you jerk you.
That’s about it though.
If people come to a site called Zombie Zone News, they have to understand that the majority of the NEWS found on said site is to be taken as entertainment or is about entertainment.
For the record, Everything I mentioned in this article IS scientifically based. The majority of the science I got for it came from a HARVARD PROFESSOR. Also, you must be quite the world traveler to be able to say beyond any shadow of a doubt that there are countries out there that have no plague even zombie ones. You must not be familiar with Zombie Voodoo of Haiti.
I leave you with this quote:
“Those too weak to follow their own dreams will always find ways to discourage others.”
Well actually it has happened before in history, lots of stuff has happened in history, and lots of history gets burried alive, There are things science plays with and is keep hidden from the public’s eyes. That is not fear based but a reality.
The human factor is always ignorant of what they play with reguardless how intelligent we view ourselfs
Some people are content happy living in ignorance as long as there world does not get jarred by others, The sheer thought of Zombie’s terrifies you!!! Oh yes my quarky friends.
Even fear fears death that I know for sure!!
Most stupidest? Wow, that’s the most best grammar I ever am ever seeing.
Nice grammar Adrian. How old are you?
Maybe you should pass grade school before you call someone else stupid.
Holy mother.. It’s true! I know people tend to scoff at these ideas and specualtion of a mass pandemic kicking off a Zombie apocolypse, but it still seems the most plausible way that we’re going to wipe ourselves out. Either by building better drugs forcing the infections to mutate and increase their strength, or that we bio-engineer something that’s going to infect us and turn the populous into Zombies..
Either that or we’re going to nuke ourselves. Personally, given the choice between Mad Max or Zombieland, I think that running from the infected would be more fun, although ultimately more difficult and dangerous. What we have to hope for is the shuffling Zombies, as opposed to the scarier, faster running Zombies of the 28 Days Later/Left 4 Dead variety. Because if we get those ones, we’re screwed… Fact!
LOL!!! So True!
Ok. steve is this article for real? be honest please. I’m not sure if your joking or have just decided to write an article. If this is true what you are saying and this is really going to happen. then why at the end of april?
email me: [email protected]
please see the email I sent you…
Thanks gents!
cool article Steve (as always) and I totally agree with your points raised,
one thing about “airbourne” stuff is it doesn’t necissarily mean it’ll travel thousands of miles…it could just be a few feet, a couple of miles or a few kilometers (obviously as the infection spreads more and more of the air gets contaminated)…so depending on how effective it is airbourne combined with the density and spread/growth, you could have a bit of time before you need to “panic” (although I wouldn’t reccomend panicing at all, that’s dangerous to yourself and everyone around you).
I think one of the best defenses is for people to get way more knowledge and understanding about how these things work, why they work, and what they affect/infect and all the results to do with differant conditions and what not. Ideally there’d be a lab specificly designed to research everything zombie and undead related and various related toxins, viruses and other contaminants…that would be the most effective defense, because if there’s more knowledge and understanding then perhaps someone can develop something to combat it (either a vaccine or drug or something that kills the parasite in the case of a parasite infection). Realisticly, without that knowledge the human race would be royally screwed.
I’ve suspected for a long time that a zombie apoclaypse would like be something a tad more contagious than just bites and scratches to worry about. One would have to be careful where you get your food from, where you get your water from (and even if you grow your own, still excersise caution – do you know 100% what’s in the ground or soil or whatever that you’re growing your stuff in?), anywhere where there’s air vents through a building will not be safe, air vents are just as good at transporting viruses, parasites and other nasties as they are at transporting air.
And one had better seriously think about either making or buying a good hazmat type suit, and that’s just for starters (will need breathing apperatus, protective eyewear, making any building you’re in air-tight and steralizing it and re-enforcing it).
Anyone that wants protection in a zombie apocalypse has a whole lot more work to do than nipping down the store to get a couple of shotguns and a chainsaw…lol.
This is just my perspective Steve (as with all my comments)…I’m not saying you don’t know this, nor that any of your readers do…it’s good to share thoughts, and also maybe/hopefully there will be something in that mad rambling that I put that someone somewhere will find useful…heh.
Deep and insightful as always, Alex!
thanks Steve and you’re most welcome
Another fantastic article !