http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/05/18/cdc-warns-public-prepare-zombie-apocalypse/

Really...I mean come on CDC between the Swine Flu thing, MRSA, E.Coli, and such you're looking at Zombies?

You ever read a CDC emergency plan? A little curious about this one though aren't you? Might even read a bit huh?

See it worked.

Also depends on what kind of zombie, are they the fast ones form 28 Days/Weeks Later or the slow George Romero type zombies?

The latter I doubt would ever actually go to such a scale that they'll be an actual threat and not just immediately wiped out by the government, the former ... I don't know man.

Who knows I just find a lot of this to be absurd and i'm not even sure zombies could really exist to be honest. Funniest thing was people thinking "Zombies" due to the extreme amount of radiation leaking out of the reactor at that Japanese nuke plant. Guess I should say morbidly funny because of the serious nature of the radiation, but still it does go into the ridiculousness area.

The only zombies known to exist are the "Voodoo" style zombies where they use that puffer fish and the tetradoxin poison to induce a strange state in people.

It got you to read an article about the CDC's advice for emergency situations didn't it?

Their plan is working as intended.

The Apocalypse: Now supporting literacy!

Just being a zombie nerd, I want to point out the 28 days later 'Zombies' are more or less rabid humans.

What we really have to watch out for are the Necromorphs.

I'd be more interested if Milla Jovovich was involved somehow.

Heck no. I'd go insane from all the sudden holes in reality everywhere, the world turning into a desert and then back within a decade would ruin everything, and all that slowmo and ridiculous 3D slides would give us all headaches.

"Zombies" are techinally impossible anyway. 28 days later style is far closer to reality.

That's probably why it made me so nervous, since it hits so close to reality. :bonk:

Zombies in the magical come back to life/radiation thing makes no sense. However. after playing F:NV, the idea of a fungus take control of a dead host scares me just as much :cryvaultboy:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1386717/Why-zombie-ants-infected-mind-controlling-fungus-kill-high-noon.html


I think it's quite a good ploy by the CDC actually. It will get quite a lot more people to prepare for other emergencies I think.

Doesn't change the fact that those things are even more idiotic than regular zombies. And way less cool.

The 28 days later scenario is also quite fictional. No parasitic creature in existence keeps its host alive they just feed and move on. The zombie concept is an excuse used to dehumanize humans making them appealing and acceptive to kill. It gives the loners outside of society something to hope for. Movies leverage a zombie plot to give the beta's of a culture stage time.

Zombies would be a welcome compared to the brain dead folk in these parts...

If the water was affected on a mass scale this could very well happen.

But running zombies would be easier to kill. One shotgun to th chest and their down. sure they can un but the Rage zombies only last for a few months before starving. While the Romeros could possibly "live" for years and only die exactly by a shot to the head. So people not educated on zombies would fine them difficult to kill and would succumb maybe by accident to the zombie plague.

Slow zombies though dumb are unrelenting, never sleep, require no food or water. They just keep going. Humans on the other hand have to do these things why'll these zombies constantly go. Also there are dangers of contaminated food or open wounds might cause infection. Also we would be forced into bad conditions if not properly prepared. Small out breaks in small towns could be easy to wipe out. But a big city where some guy doesn't even know hes affected spreading his zombie germs around spreading the disease and people dying wthin a week becoming zombies. It wuld be first slow but then panic would ensue and thats when the SHTF.

Ok, so it got some to read iabout emergency preparedness...... but did it actually get anyone (here) to consider actually making emergency preparations?

I've never seen 28 days later, but a parasite that changes the host's behavior is not a far out concept. It's been documented in the real world in snails, rats, and ants.
With snails a parasitic worm that can only reproduce inside this type of bird infects the snail and changes its behavior to crawl up to the treetops, something a snail would never do, and sit there waiting to be eaten by the bird. The worms move to the tentacles of the snail and change the color of the tentacle to one that catches the bird's eye so that birds will come quicker and also only bite the tentacle which doesn't kill the snail.
With rats the parasite once again infects a host, the rat, but can only reproduce in its predator, a cat. The parasite makes the rat go out into the open and stop, almost paralyzed, to let the rat eat it, thus moving the parasite to the cat where it can reproduce.
In ants, if I remember correctly it was a fungus that, once in the ant, forces it to abandon the colony, go to a cool damp area ideal for fungus growing, and lay there as the fungus grows in it and eventually explodes out of it.
While the parasite may not keep the host alive, it definitely alters its behavior to make it spread as much as possible, which, in the case of classic zombies would be making it bite other humans.


It would have gotten me to... had I not already made preparations

Not technically zombies but your ignorance on the matter is forgiven as you'll likely be eaten first

Given the importance given towards Zombie Apocalypse preparation on this forum, I'm surprised there has not been more discussion of the official US Center for Disease Control

http://emergency.cdc.gov/socialmedia/zombies_blog.asp

I also didn't see the CDC directly linked (just through news stories), so the actual link is above.

I think the emergency supplies are prudent, but they seem to be missing some important things, like gasoline and a flamethrower.

I think at this stage we should just have a pinned zombie apocalypse thread.

http://www.cracked.com/article_18683_7-scientific-reasons-zombie-outbreak-would-fail-quickly.html

Its a joke FAQ.

This is basically the basics you need for any emergency.

Oh and if we're going to be tossing Cracked.com artlces: http://www.cracked.com/blog/i-cant-tell-if-world-being-serious-anymore/