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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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
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
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…
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…
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 !