• Question: Will there ever be such thing as a Zombie like creature?

    Asked by leftym to Madgie on 10 Nov 2013.
    • Photo: Marlene Lorgen

      Marlene Lorgen answered on 10 Nov 2013:


      Now don’t panic, but there are some viruses (called neurotropic viruses) which can affect the brain and cause aggressive and abnormal behaviour. Perhaps the closet ‘zombie’ disease that we know of is rabies, which can be transferred through bites.

      However, these viruses are nothing like those in zombie movies, and it is very unlikely that ‘movie zombies’ (that seem to keep going even when fatally injured) would ever be a real thing, so don’t worry!

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