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Of the type often seen in movies where the body is rotten, no. Dead tissue doesn’t move.
However, there are approximations:
For starters there’s a type of fungus that hijacks ants, using it to spread its spores into other ants. It can control the ants movement to the point where it will cause the and to go to certain good spore-spread8ng places before the ant is devoured.
Then there’s the disease that affects raindeer in some places. I don’t remember the illness, but basically the mind goes byebye while the body is left to be controlled by less and less sophisticated parts of the brain, to the point where the animal can do nothing but walk in circles.
I mean, those fungi are crazy.
But my money is either on a rabies or toxoplasmosis mutation for the zombie apocalypse.
They wouldn’t be the living dead, and I dont think there’d be anything to stop them from attacking each other, but that’s be pretty close to zombies.
Just feral humans without higher brain function trying to attack and eat anything they can.
imagine being a spore and becoming conscious inside an ant, with an animal’s brain.
That’s NOT how those spores work bro, they don’t gain cousciousness lmao
Also, ants aren’t even conscious themselfs
EDIT: Typos.
probably yeah but its a lot of fun to imagine
Agree, that’s funny lol
Undead Zombies? No. I’m no virologist, but I’ve read about a Rabies variety, or certain fungal infections. Fiction-wise, World War Z, or 28 Days type “zombies”, where the body is very much functioning, but the brain has been hijacked…
Which in theory with any sort of living zombie all you’d need to do is wait out the zombies for a few weeks/months while they inevitably starve to death.
You couldn’t wait them out…
They wouldn’t just eat people, they’d eat anything. Lots of chance for cross species transmission which would come back to humans later. It wouldn’t just be human to human transmission.
If we get viral zombies, that’d just be something we have to always deal with a little bit for centuries.
Fuck, imagine the balls to go camping knowing some crazy feral human that had been living in the woods for either days or years might be attracted to your fire.
Some antivaxxer CrossFit club gets a breakout and the whole neighborhood is fucked.
I assume they would starve as humans are only good at hunting because of tools. Helpfully we’re not getting the Land of the Dead variety of zombie that is smart enough to use tools.
Oh and exposure would probably get them too
The weakest would die and the rest would eat them…
It’s what happens with locust swarms, you stop moving you become food.
An average person in the woods? Yeah. Probably won’t last too long. But it takes a couple weeks to actually starve.
Then animals eat them, and maybe they get infected. Maybe that goes back to humans eventually?
We still have polio outbreaks, something like this wouldn’t just die out in a few months, or even years.
Rare cases would keep popping up, and outbreaks will keep happening.
Yeah I can see what you mean. Reminiscent of 28 Weeks Later.
THE ECONOMY! Everyone must return to work, despite the very low and acceptable risk of being eaten by zombies, in order to keep our real estate investments worthwhile.
If we did the traditional 40 day quarantine of old rather than the shitty 2 weeks lockdown we may have lowered the spread better… But even China tried hard to do zero covid and eventually succumbed 2022 when covid still managed to go out of control
Or they’re eaten by birds and dogs
By definition? No. Don’t listen to any of these, “exceptions.” You asked a direct question and the direct answer is no.
I’ve seen a living zombie hoard before, at a dump in Nicaragua where they lived. I was told they got high on sniffing shoe glue, which literally causes the brain to decay while they’re still “alive,” but they just shambled around in a big mob, seemingly aimlessly, with glue smeared under their noses.
Atypical rabies I would say would be pretty close. Good thing rabies is pretty rare.
Thanks Michael Scott!
It’s all about the optics.
Without the giant check and medical professional presenting it, no one would even know Meredith got hit by a car
I don’t know if there’s video anywhere of a person who had rabies, but I imagine it wouldn’t be that different from zombie movies, or the rage virus.
No, until yes.
Not that great a post, huh?
Half of murica has being brain dead since long ago
Yes, they are called “republicans”.
Zombies are a real thing, Haitians would use toxins on you to trigger your death response making you genuinely convinced you were dead. That signal is so primal that all of your logical reasoning would be completely overridden with a deeply rooted delusion that you are in fact dead. It’s kind of like how you can spray ants with their death chemical and they will walk as if they’re fatally injured towards the ant graveyard.
sure, but ones immune to bullets? nope, theyd just be rotting flesh
Yes, biologically speaking there is a fungus that can control and takeover ants body.
Except that fungus can’t live in high temperatures that are inside a human body… at least, not ones we know about right now…
Well, the post didn’t specify “human” zombies so at least it is true that ant zombies exist
Scopolamine is a truth drug that renders people highly suggestive, unable to lie, and unable to lay down memories whilst under its influence.
Close to zombified.
Has been used in Colombia and South America.
https://allthatsinteresting.com/devils-breath-scopolamine-burundanga
I thought this was debunked as fear mongering?
70 years ago… But imagine what they can do with modern technology https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKUltra
The most likely zombie to exist are from diseases and/or viruses. Zombie deer virus exists which makes deer irrational and fearless but rarely violent, rabies is one of the oldest viruses and still can’t be cured once symptoms show and cause violence in animals but not humans, and viruses are always evolving and changing, so the possibility isn’t entirely out of the question, but it shouldn’t be anything to worry about.
Braindead people not caring about the wellbeing of others or themselves?
Sounds like the individuals you’ll find at black Friday sales.
/s but also that’s likely the closest you’ll get to an actual Zombie invasion.
