I know I promised that my next article would be about the vehicles of Zombiegeddon, however after completing my research on viruses that could cause a zombie outbreak, I felt it necessary to inform each of you of my discovery.
The above image is one of my personal drawings of a Zombie.
Throughout my research as a paranormal investigator/ researcher, I have pondered the question of what can re-animate the dead. What causes zombie-ism? Is there something out there so powerful, that it haunts our nightmares and seems to be straight out of a horror or science fiction movie? The truth is just as startling as the questions themselves.
As a paranormal investigator, I’ve found myself in situations where I’m constantly face to face with the unbelievable, the darkness that most of us choose not to accept. A realm of the dead that truly does exist. We as humans know that there is a land of the living, which we experience every day for as long as our hearts continue beating and as long as our brains can fathom it. As a paranormal investigator, I know there is a realm of the dead which can sometimes coincide with the land of the living that many scientists choose not to accept. But what happens when the realm of the dead merges with the land of the living and the “dead” do begin rising from their graves?
Let’s begin by analyzing what can actually cause zombie-ism. There are a number of diseases, bacteria and disorders out there which can give some of the characteristics of zombie-ism as we’ve seen in the recent cases in Florida and other parts of the world. Mad Cow Disease (Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease) which is caused by the mutation of prions which are a form of protein found in all living things. Mad Cow Disease is contracted by eating infected food. The symptoms of MCD are as follows: rapidly progressive dementia, leading to memory loss, personality changes and hallucinations, accompanied by speech impairment, jerky movements, balance and coordination dysfunction, changes in gait, rigid posture, and seizures. The symptoms of CJD are caused by the progressive death of the brain's nerve cells, which is associated with the build-up of abnormal prion proteins forming amyloids.
Rabies is another that can give the characteristics of zombie-ism. It begins with flu like symptoms that can last between two –twelve weeks. It then moves into slight or partial paralysis, anxiety, insomnia, confusion, agitation, abnormal behavior, paranoia, terror, and hallucinations, progressing to delirium. Rabies is also known as hydrophobia because victims often can’t swallow which is part of what causes them to foam at the mouth, and show extreme agitation to water.
Recently it’s become speculated that bath salts can also cause zombie like symptoms. Herbal bath salts produce hallucinogenic effects, anxiety, paranoia, delusions, insomnia, vivid nightmares, and suicidal thoughts. As well as high blood pressure, severe stomach pains, vomiting, and seizures.
So let’s do some creative thinking on this for a moment. Humor me if you will. What if an animal with rabies attacks and eats an animal with mad cow disease? The result: a single animal with both rabies and mad cow disease which could lead into a mutation and merging of both into a single threatening virus. That animal is then killed, ground up, packaged and placed into the general public’s food supply. Once the ground meat is then consumed by humans, you will have an outbreak. This outbreak would cause further mutation of the new virus such as merging with other bacteria and viruses such as ebola, HIV, etc.
As discovered by scientists, some stem cells can lay dormant in a dead person for up to 2 weeks, then be revived to divide into new functioning cells. The research, published in the journal Nature Communications according to a forum article on cosmoquest.org. Imagine if you will, this new mutated form of rabies/ mad cow disease now living dormant in every living person on the planet. It’s possible do in part to evolution when coming in contact and merging with other bacteria and viruses etc. It symbiotically bonds with the brain stem cells. Upon death, a person’s stem cells will then reignite as seen in a season 1 episode of “The Walking Dead”. This would re-animate the dead and give us a Zombie Apocalypse. No longer is the virus spread through digesting but rather by bite just like rabies. There you have the perfect scientifically based real life zombie threat. This virus could spread from person to person, city to city, state to state in a matter of hours or days. This virus would spread so fast the military wouldn’t be able to deploy quick enough to stop the threat, The CDC wouldn’t be able warn people fast enough to contain the spread of the virus and people all over the world would eventually either fall victim to or be on the road to surviving THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE!