Zombie Apocalypse Now

Its funny isnt it ?
How Zombies have been driven so far into the minds of the human race, if you asked most people they would say the dead will rise from the earth one day.
Ok so not everyone, but ask movie goers and they'll swear by it.
Growing up in the 90's i played a lot of games based round zombies, Resident Evil,The House Of The Dead, Zombies Ate My Neighbours, the list could go on forever. At the same time however i was watching a large amount of movies which had some form of a Zombie in it.
I'm familiar with the phrase Zombie, your familiar with the phrase Zombie, everybody on the planet knows what a Zombie is.
The thing is with Zombies the majority of the population think its fiction, made up childs play.
But on the island of Haiti there have been numerous recorded incidents of the dead rising due to neurotoxins. These Zombies are able to walk and move, nothing more nothing less.
So ok there not the flesh eating kind thats gonna eat your brains out, but the dead have rose officially.

But what if the flesh eating dead did actually rise one day ?

Just think about that for a second. The more you think about it the less fun it sounds everytime it echoes round your brain. It would be a disaster on a global scale, no human being would be able to escape it.
Where would you go ? how are you going to eat ? what are you going to drink ? is it safe to drink the water ? the amount of questions this scenario raises is endless, its quite simply terrifying.
If it ever happened theres the possibility of society collapsing. This would lead to no power, no lights.
Fear would become the main instinct of everyday survival. Constantly watching your back not only for Zombies but Humans. We as a race are notorious for greed and power, we've killed millions of ourselves for these luxories. Its very easy to assume we'd be exactly the same if an event like this occured.
Insanity, Paranoia and other mental illnesses would likely increase throughout humanity.
Encountering Flesh Eating beings everyday would no doubt have a huge effect on a humans mind and behaviour. Night fall is when the real horror would begin though.
All those torches and candles you stocked up are going to run out sooner or later, ponder the thought of hearing these beings in the dark, unable to see them knowing there getting closer. I find the thought frightning and i'm sure some people who read this will.

So what are the chances of the undead rising you ask ? its hard to say exactly but its very unlikely. But here are a few ways of how it could.



CJD



Do you remember the term Mad Cows Disease ? its practically unheard of these days thanks to improvement and stricter guidelines to cutting beef. But before 1989 Between 460,000 and 482,000 BSE-infected cows entered the human food chain in the UK before health officials relised. That means some beef was contaminated with the always fatal virus, Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease.
Its killer and it can take years to take effects, you die a slow and painful death as effectivly your brain rots away.
In some cases when the cows had it they would randomly start vicously attacking each other. A CJD infected human may not be an undead zombie but if these events started happening others could get infected spreading the virus. Most likely this would of happened by now and remains a theory.

Parasites:

Over half the human race is infected with the brain parasite Toxoplasmosa. studies have shown if you've got it your more likely to go bat shit crazy, maybe so crazy you'll start eating people.
Again this remains theory.

Neurogenesis:

This is the ability to regrow dead cells and tissue, its being tested and trialed now. Who knows what it could lead too !

Nanobots:

These are microscopic robots which are currently being developed for medical uses. Seems like a great idea until scientists created the very first Nano Cyborg. Scientists did this by fusing a tiny silicone chip to a virus. The first thing they found out is these cyborgs can still operate for up to a month after the death of the host.

Zombies don't seem that unreal after all then do they ?

After reading this i want you to relax if you've managed to get yourself worked up. This was wrote just as a bit of fun to let you think constrcutivly what you'd do in a situation like this.
I also want to raise awareness of the issues ive covered in this blog such as CJD.
Personally i don't believe the undead are going to rise anytime in the near future, however theres the possibility of highly contagious viruses causing plauges. Many media figures have said this would be similair to a "Zombie" outbreak, i agree with this.
But relax it might never happen ;) enjoy life !
Don't wait for that shuffling of feet and groaning