"1.It could be man made
2. That some one for sure would find a way to weaponized it"

"The concept of natural or supernatural zombies is neither here nor there for me but what really scares me is the idea that
1.It could be man made
2. That some one for sure would find a way to weaponized it
3. They same people that made it and weaponized it would most likely try it out to see how well it works

Just think of some engineered virus that caused rage and sociopath behavior then release it on the masses
I would wonder why they did it and the only reason i could think of is
1. They were completely insane
2. It was a global decision by the main players who are now safely deep underground in secure facilities away from the horror and anarchy they unleashed on the global population for reasons know only to them"

"Well that's why I think that the poor folks living near the CDC center would probably be screwed first. I mean, that's basically Pandora's box right there so to speak. Also, folks living near hospitals will probably have additional concerns as well. I mean, anyone can just waltz into a hospital carrying who knows what and then boom. All hell breaks loose.

I do believe a virus could reanimate a body of someone who was not just clinically but positively dead. It would of course have to have the ability to repair it's own host and transmit easily from say, a source to a host.

I think that a virus which has a very elaborate ability to repair its host or at least activate the repair functions of its host (as in the Nerotonin-4 virus from 'Dead Frontier' for example) may be possible. A very frightening prospect to say the least though.

I think it is indeed possible but to actually succeed in making such a virus? The one weapon which could and probably will come close to wiping humanity off the face of the earth? I mean, that would take one helluva monster or evil kind of person to do that.

Or maybe a virus evolves or changes or a new strand of a virus. One of the such viruses I was curious about was have say the rabies virus and it mutates somehow so it infects humans and on a global scale. Say it meshes with the flu virus somehow and you then have a very easy-to-transmit virus with seemingly no end of hosts.

A nightmare and-a-half if ever I did think of one."

"Or maybe a virus evolves or changes or a new strand of a virus. One of the such viruses I was curious about was have say the rabies virus and it mutates somehow so it infects humans and on a global scale. Say it meshes with the flu virus somehow and you then have a very easy-to-transmit virus with seemingly no end of hosts. "

"I've thought of this after seeing the movie Contagion. In the movie, SPOILER ALERT, it takes the cdc and world health organization something like 130 days to create a vaccine, and that's just with people that get sick, not become zombies and infect and kill others. I think tens of millions of people were killed by the virus, but i could be off. If this kind of virus was to combine with the zed virus, i don't think anything would be able to stop it.

Now of course this was just a movie and could be completely impossible, but it gives you something to think about. "

"Well the movie Contagion was exactly was I was getting at. I don't think for one second it would be impossible for rabies to jump from, say the canine species over to us at all. All it takes is a few determined scientists playing God or maybe it will just happen naturally by the virus evolving or the virus mutates or gets changed somehow.

Biological weapons are out there, folks. I dont even want to guess how many. At least with chemicle weapons, its reasonably easy to protect yourself and know what to do. With nuclear weapons, either you wont even feel it or you get away from the fallout or hunker down.

Biological is so much harder because you never know if you dont already have a bug inside you. So with that in mind... your expensive containment suit might not even be any good. You just dont know. You could already be infected.

I think that if a virus was already inside a host and somehow managed to activate the functions of the brain such as motor skills WITHIN a certain amount of time (which is basically all you need anyways for a zombie) we would have a very serious problem on our hands, folks. We really would.

I know cellular decomposition occurs very fast after someone dies so the virus would have to be both elaborate and sophisticated in its abilities and functions and of course it would have to be able to do a myriad of things."

"Its kind of ironic that with all of our modern medicine nature always finds away to fight back at what ever we do
We make a vaccine the virus mutates we make a new vaccine it mutates again and so it goes on

The one that i keep a close eye on because i feel it poses the greatest risk of a global pandemic with a very high body count is the H5 N1 or commonly know as Avian influenza ( bird flu)
The day it mutates and allows consisted human to human transmission its going to get rough and a lot of people will be infected before governments can react quickly enough to stop its spread on a global scale

In 2006 there was a quite siting of government and one of the things they did was ratify the emergency powers act removing the right to every person to a separate grave. Now its legal under the emergency powers act to use mass graves and to enforce mandatory home quarantine of the whole population and to stop all forms of travel unless approved by the government.
There was a whole bunch of things passed without public discussion. Some of it was leaked onto the net but it was quickly pulled down before to many people got on to it
What they are really doing is making sure order is maintained because once people know who is getting the vaccine all hell will break lose. It kind of hard to explain to an angry mob why a politician and his golf buddies get a needle while your family dies"

"The thing that worries me the most, is what happens if the Zombie virus actualy starts life as something like a cure for cancer or HIV (or anything like bird flu) because the company that makes it will have exported it to alot of countries, and would have been given to alot of people before any problems are noticed"

"No problem
just give me some time find the right links and i will post them here the only part i wont be able to supply a link to is the amendments to the emergency powers act as you need a to be a registered user now to access that part even the site that is free to the public was made tighter to access after the 2006 amendments but most of it is still open to the public under the freedom of information act. the rest of the federal government pandemic planning is open to the public including the parts about enforced home quarantine

All so should note that this only applies to Australia i am not sure of other countries"

"yeah and a few TV programs, it got me very worried (for a few nights anyway)

back to the OP i wouldnt go near a shopping mall till the panic died down (unless i was there when it started and i would get out of there to my home asap) and i was the last person in my town. But even then im not sure as it is in a valley and me and my mates think that Zeds would find it easyer to go down hill so they will most likely end up down in the town"