This week, I read an article on the possibility of zombies, and how likely a diesease or some sort of transmittable organism could evoke the symtoms of zombies, although in real life cases the subjects would more likely than not still be alive, just with decreased brain function. I was surprised to find out how this alread happens in rats, and how a small parasite that can only survive in the inside of a cat will take over the brain of the rat and actually make it run TOWARD the cat until it gets consumed, where it will spawn in the intestine of the cat and repeat the process. The article also talked about how several contaigions have the
potential to decrease the brain function the absolute barest minimum of basic life functions, basically creating ravenous beasts that resemble mad cows infected with mad cow disease. Luckily, as the article points out, the chances of any of these actually turning into a mind controlling zombie disease is slim to none. Even if it did happen, there are several reasons we would be alright. A) There has been enough zombie killing games to know that headshots ALWAYS work. B) Were Texan. That means there are an awful lot of guns and people who know to use them. But in all seriousness, even if this happened, most experts agree it would be difficult to transmit and should be able to be contained rather quickly.
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