Could Zombies Become Reality?

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Today is Zombie Zunday and I thought I would look into whether or not a zombie apocalypse could happen. So first we need to see how zombies come about.

Return of the Living Dead (1985)

In the return of the living dead, two bumbling employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors cause the dead to rise again as zombies. The infection spreads by being bitten by another zombie.

Likelihood: Not possible at all. For this one to happen the dead must walk and to be honest this is not possible. Dead people do not get up and walk around. Okay for the sake of the believers out there lets give this one a 1% chance

So for any movie where the dead actually rise we will skip them. But lets not count out the ones where a virus kills the host and then reanimates them. After all, the host dies in order for the virus to take control. I could see a possibility in this. To me that is not the dead rising but the transition from host control to virus control.

I am Legend

Now, I am Legend is a different story. This one technically isn't zombies but the concept is the same. In I am Legend a genetically re-engineered measles virus, originally created as a cure for cancer, mutates into a lethal strain which kills 90 percent of those it infected, and turns the remaining 10% into predatory, nocturnal "Darkseekers" who are vulnerable to sunlight. The infection is spread through air or contact.

Likelihood: Well for me, this one is going into a more likely side of things. The infected are not dead and do not rise from the dead. Scientists are always screwing around with things they shouldn't be and have on many occasions fucked up.

28 Days Later

This one lies in the same boat as I am Legend. The infected are not dead and nor do they rise from the dead. In 28 Days Later, three activists break into a medical research laboratory with the intent of freeing captive chimpanzees. They are interrupted by a scientist who desperately warns that the chimps are infected with "Rage," a highly contagious rage-inducing virus that is spread through blood and saliva. Ignoring the scientist, the activists release a chimpanzee, who attacks one of them and immediately infects her, leading her to infect everyone else present

Likelihood: What country would not want a super soldier. A soldier that will be able to fight longer, faster and hard than any normal human. I would not be surprised if these experiments have already started and even been underway for years. Rage is a very strong emotion which can push a human beyond their normal physiological means. So if a rage virus was ever created we could see a 28 Days Later style zombie apocalypse.

Zombie movies these days are leaning away from the dead rising from their graves and are more leaning to a virus which takes control of the human body. If we look at zombies as less of dead people walking around and more of a virus infected population, then a zombie outbreak could definitely happen.

Do you believe a Zombie apocalypse could happen?


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