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DrRaines
DrRaines
Zombie Invation is Verry Plausable
Mar 13 2009, 3:35 PM EDT | Post edited: Mar 13 2009, 3:35 PM EDT
NAEGLERIA - this one is found in water and soil, but only one species - naegleria fowleri - can infect humans. The infection mimics bacterial meningitis and affects the brain and spinal cord. The parasite enters the body through underwater swimming and/or diving - the ameba then travels to the brain and spinal cord. Infection causes Primary Amebic Meningoencephalitis (PAM), a brain inflammation, which leads to the destruction of brain tissue. Initial symptoms of PAM include headache, fever, nausea, vomiting and stiff neck. Further destruction of brain tissue leads to confusion, lack of attention, loss of balance and body control, seizures, hallucinations. This disease progresses very rapidly and usually results in death in 3-7 day.

When pushed to the brink of death out disorientation a person can and would most likely attack another human. If one of these parasites such at the one I mentioned above or Toxoplasma Gondii (Which I think are the two most likely to be used) Were aver cultivated and distributed in mass to say a High school or even worse a water treatment plant . The results would be catastrophic. It's not a matter of if it will happen its how and when. 1  out of 1 found this valuable. Do you?    
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A.Stanton
A.Stanton
1. RE: Zombie Invation is Verry Plausable
Mar 14 2009, 8:08 AM EDT | Post edited: Mar 14 2009, 9:24 AM EDT
Sorry but there is nothing plausable about Naegleria as the cause of a zombie outbreak. The symptoms you describe are correct but to draw the conclusion that a dissoriented person would attack others is just silly, and no such incidents have been reported. Also Naegleria does not spred from one person to another so even if someone would massdistribute Naegleria fowleri it would only result in a local incident.

My candidate would be a mutated, faster form of the rabiesvirus, its known to cause mania and lethargy, (both fitting the typical notion of zombies), and it spreads through bites. 1  out of 1 found this valuable. Do you?