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

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    Security firm to hold zombie crisis scenario
    By Gidget Fuentes - Staff writer
    Posted : Sunday Sep 16, 2012 11:25:48 EDT
    SAN DIEGO — Forget the H1N1 pandemic. Could a future crisis arise from an outbreak of viruses that destroy brain cells and render people violently catatonic, like zombies?

    The far-fetched scenario of a government grappling a zombielike threat — think movies like “Night of the Living Dead” or, more comically, “Zombieland” — has captured the attention and imagination of Brad Barker, president of the security firm HALO Corp.

    Next month, his outfit will incorporate — no kidding — zombies into a disaster-crisis scenario at the company’s annual Counter-Terrorism Summit in San Diego, a five-day event providing hands-on training, realistic demonstrations, lectures and classes geared to more than 1,000 military personnel, law enforcement officials, medical experts, and state and federal government workers. Continue
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    The funny thing is some people are beginning to think this is a real possibility.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Omicron View Post
    The funny thing is some people are beginning to think this is a real possibility.
    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!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sawin View Post
    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."
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ronin13 View Post
    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!
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    Zombies will probably be made here in Plum Island, New York by an accident...Tooth Fairies will probably be made in San Francisco!


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    Quote Originally Posted by Omicron View Post
    The funny thing is some people are beginning to think this is a real possibility.
    Let them.. if that what it takes to increase preparedness /awareness. The more people are self reliant, the better. Obvious, once more people are responsible and prepared, they want to protect their assets.. bam.. gun right awareness!
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