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spraymachine
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Zombies made of more than one virus?
Jan 25 2009, 3:38 PM EST | Post edited: Jan 25 2009, 3:38 PM EST
Viruses tend to be fairly specific in what they do and how they do it. To get a full on zombie with all the different features, wouldn't it be much easier to have 5 different viruses all doing their own few things to add to the overall effect?

Some destroy the myelin sheaths of certain parts of the brain that that allow neurons to pass on information. This could disable our judgment and ability to reason (parts of prefrontal cortex). Some alter the Hypothalamus to produce hormones that alter the blood pressure, hunger levels, and sleep duration. Some virus with a rabies like anger-aggression could occur along with a bacteria that causes excessive sneezing, further spreading the sickness and making it somewhat air born.

Possibly the zombie virus could be a symbiotic relationship between multiple viruses and even bacteria.
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Borathian
Borathian
1. RE: Zombies made of more than one virus?
Jan 25 2009, 4:54 PM EST | Post edited: Jan 25 2009, 4:54 PM EST
"Viruses tend to be fairly specific in what they do and how they do it. To get a full on zombie with all the different features, wouldn't it be much easier to have 5 different viruses all doing their own few things to add to the overall effect?

Some destroy the myelin sheaths of certain parts of the brain that that allow neurons to pass on information. This could disable our judgment and ability to reason (parts of prefrontal cortex). Some alter the Hypothalamus to produce hormones that alter the blood pressure, hunger levels, and sleep duration. Some virus with a rabies like anger-aggression could occur along with a bacteria that causes excessive sneezing, further spreading the sickness and making it somewhat air born.

Possibly the zombie virus could be a symbiotic relationship between multiple viruses and even bacteria. "
interesting idea, but the probability of such a zombie occurring is much less than any other I can think of as it has fare more variables 5 in fact that all need to coordinate to make the zombie, and if one virus were to do its job out of tern like the blood pressure one It may well kill the host before they were able to become the end result.
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