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- A zombie (Haitian French: zombi; Haitian Creole: zonbi; Kikongo: zumbi) is a mythological undead corporeal revenant created through the reanimation of a corpse. In modern popular culture, zombies are most commonly found in horror genre works.
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Dec 14, 2015 · Zombie expert Matt Mogk defines a zombie with three criteria: it is a reanimated human corpse; it is relentlessly aggressive; and it is biologically infected and infectious. 1 But Mogk notes that this definition has been altered by the recognition of “rage” zombies, which are infected but still alive.
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The Last of Us is a video game-turned-HBO show in which a widespread zombie apocalypse is started by cordyceps. In the story, cordyceps is a parasitic fungus that takes over your body and causes you to infect others through fungal spores or mycelia (tendrils). In reality, cordyceps can’t infect humans but it is a parasitic fungus that infects speci...
Resident Evilstands out from other zombie lore because it focuses on the idea that a zombie virus can alter or change your genetic code. These alterations then lead to enormous physical mutations that forever change the person infected. “This concept is based in truth,” says Dr. Misra. “Viruses have a simple structure, so they can’t reproduce on th...
One common thread in all zombie fiction is how infections have an effect on your brain — but are there any real-world infections that impact your ability to think clearly? Some viruses, bacteria, parasites and fungi have the ability to cause inflammation in and around the brain, especially if they’re left untreated. When you develop meningitis, the...
An infection caused by a zombie virus usually leads to increased decay and cell death, much like necrotizing fasciitis. In reality, necrotizing fasciitis is a flesh-eating disease that affects your muscle fascia (thin, connective tissue) under the surface of your skin and causes those tissues to die. Most often, this condition is caused by bacteria...
Zombie fans familiar with 28 Days Laterwill remember an iconic scene in which one person gets infected by a single drop of blood that falls into their eye — and that’s all it takes to infect them within seconds. “Is it possible a single drop of blood could cause infection? Yes, but a lot of things would have to align in order for that to happen,” s...
You can’t have zombies if you can’t bring back the dead. While that’s scientifically impossible (at least for now) one study is pushing the boundaries between life and death. Yale researchers were able to restore function to cells across multiple organs in pigs that were dead for more than one hour in an effort to revive those organs after death. T...
- Zombie ants. Ophiocordyceps is a genus of fungi that has more than 200 species, and mycologists are still counting. Many species of fungi can be dangerous, often because they are toxic to animals, but there is one thing in particular that makes Ophiocordyceps especially frightening.
- Zombie spiders. Last year, zoologist Philippe Fernandez-Fournier — from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada — and colleagues made a chilling discovery in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
- The reanimated virus. Reanimating humans, or, at least, human-like creatures, as in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein or H. P. Lovecraft’s “Herbert West: Reanimator,” is a notion that has piqued the interest of writers, filmmakers and, of course, scientists, throughout the ages.
- Zombie plants. Also, in 2014, researchers from the John Innes Centre in Norwich, United Kingdom, found that certain bacteria, known as “phytoplasma,” turn some plants into “zombies.”
Oct 24, 2022 · As much as a zombie apocalypse seems like it would be a bit of fun (in a dark, twisted way), it’s just not biologically possible for a clinically dead human to rise from the grave and start mindlessly attacking people.
Oct 8, 2015 · Though a zombie may not actually care that this has happened, the disorder is the closest human condition to come close to their utter lack of recognition. The delusion is characterized by behavioral issues, and neuroscientists don’t actually have a handle on what causes it.
Nov 15, 2020 · If we think about what could actually cause a zombie apocalypse – a viral or bacterial pandemic, prions, or even brain-infecting worms – it is unlikely that any of these agents could enter something as complex as the human brain, and only damage specific parts.
Nov 18, 2014 · An anthropological investigation by the ethnobotanist Wade Davis postulated that the process of making a Haitian zombi is neuropharacological, wherein bokor use a chemical found in many animals...
