ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE

HYPOTHESIS

• If there is a disease and/or virus that causes zombie-like behavior, is it able to be spread worldwide?

DEFINITION OF A ZOMBIE

• the body of a dead person given the semblance of life, but mute and will-less, by a supernatural force, usually for some evil purpose.
• a person whose behavior or responses are wooden, listless, or seemingly rote
• a snake god worshiped in West Indian and Brazilian religious practices of African origin.

IS IT POSSIBLE?

YES!

• According to scientific research, there are many ways the fantasy zombie is possible.
• Disease Hybrid
• Brain Parasite
• Neurotoxins

DISEASE HYBRID

• If questioned if the zombie apocalypse is possible, most scientists suggest it is possible that a disease hybrid would be the most prone thing to happening.
• the most prone thing to happening
• Rabies/Flu Hybrid
• Rabies/Mad Cow Disease Hybrid

RABIES

• AN INFECTIOUS DISEASE OF DOGS, CATS, AND OTHER ANIMALS, TRANSMITTED TO HUMANS BY THE BITE OF AN INFECTED ANIMAL AND USUALLY FATAL IF PROPHYLACTIC TREATMENT IS NOT ADMINISTERED

FLU

• Pathology . an acute, commonly epidemic disease, occurring in several forms, caused by numerous rapidly mutating viral strains and characterized by respiratory symptoms and general prostration

MAD COW DISEASE

• a fatal neurological disease of cattle, characterized by spongelike changes in the brain and thought to be caused by an infectious prion also implicated in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

BRAIN PARASITES

• Naegleria fowleri
• Lost Pork Tapeworm
• Loa Loa
• Toxoplasma gondii

NEUROTOXINS

• Definition: something that is poisonous to nerve tissue, as to the brain or spinal cord.
• Could be distributed by warfare or government events

CONCLUSION

• Because the zombie apocalypse is possible, undergoing the circumstances
• that it could be distributed among humans, unless controlled, the zombie apocalypse would spread rapidly.