ZOMBIES scenario in the next Counter-Terrorism Summit in San Diego

[Ronin13]

It's actually not as far fetched as one might think. There are several known fungi and protozoa that already effectively make zombies out of living creatures. Look up toxoplasmosa gondii for one. It can be carried by most warm blooded animals, including humans... It makes rats actually go toward cats, so they will get eaten and the protozoa can reproduce in the cats intestines. The protozoa can only reproduce in feline guts... The scary part is about 1/3 of humans carry this protozoa too, and it's changing. It's actually already showing up in studies related to human suicide. You think I'm kidding? Look it up.

That doesn't even touch on the neurotoxin possibilities too! Let the zombie hoards begin!

Similarly, cordyceps take over the brain and force the host to do things outside of the norm. Like the cordyceps that effect ants, they take over, make the ant climb to unnaturally high up altitudes (for ants) and then the fungus erupts out of the ant's head and disperses spores to infect other ants.

This concept is seen infecting humans in the horror/survival game "The Last Of Us."

[HoneyBadger]

Similarly, cordyceps take over the brain and force the host to do things outside of the norm. Like the cordyceps that effect ants, they take over, make the ant climb to unnaturally high up altitudes (for ants) and then the fungus erupts out of the ant's head and disperses spores to infect other ants.

I'm trying to picture that scenario applied to humans.. I haven't heard of that game, but watching people scale tall objects before their heads explode sounds horrifying!

[BushMasterBoy]

Zombies will probably be made here in Plum Island, New York by an accident...Tooth Fairies will probably be made in San Francisco!


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plum_Island_(New_York)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plum_Is...Disease_Center

[Great-Kazoo]

Zombies will probably be made here in Plum Island, New York by an accident...Tooth Fairies will probably be made in San Francisco!


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plum_Island_(New_York)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plum_Is...Disease_Center

Not really. There are way more interesting Level 3 & 4 research centers located in the most unassuming places. Most of the research @ PI has been slowly but steadily moved to other areas of the country.


not technically zombies but a 28 days later version of RAGE could be as simple as rabies jumping to humans.

Along that train of thought AI (Avian Influenza) has been documented to mutate numerous times over it's path. From bird, through mosquito, fleas, tics, to other animals, including swine and of all things dolphins!.
Similar scenarios play out on a daily basis with anti-biotic resistant bacteria. We develop better meds the diseases adapt. Having become complacent with almost non-existent diseases left the world sitting on it's hands, when small out breaks of typhoid, scarlet fever, and smallpox pop up then vanish.

Michael Crighton wrote Hot Zone many years ago. The area it takes place in here in the US [Reston VA]. If you had the chance to read the book good for you. If not while taking place in 89. the implications of it are still valid today.
http://www.ispub.com/journal/the-int...ars-later.html



Bio-terrorism is real and perhaps a matter of time before someone decides to play God, Allah, Vishnu, Yahweh etc.