5 Ways the zombie apocalypse might actuly happen

With all the talk lately about Cannibalism and the zombie apocalypse i wanted to share with you a grate article on cracked about how the zombie apocalypse might actually happen
5.Brain Parasites

Parasites that turn victims into mindless, zombie-like slaves are fairly common in nature. There's one called toxoplasmosa gondii that seems to devote its entire existence to being terrifying
This bug infects rats, but can only breed inside the intestines of a cat. The parasite knows it needs to get the rat inside the cat (yes, we realize this sounds like the beginning of the most #ed-up Dr. Seuss poem ever) so the parasite takes over the rat's freaking brain, and intentionally makes it scurry toward where the cats hang out. The rat is being programmed to get itself eaten, and it doesn't even know.

4.Neurotoxins

There are certain kinds of poisons that slow your bodily functions to the point that you'll be considered dead, even to a doctor (okay, maybe not to a good doctor). The poison from fugu (Japanese blowfish) can do this
The victims can then be brought back under the effects of a drug like datura stramonium (or other chemicals called alkaloids) that leave them in a trance-like state with no memory, but still able to perform simple tasks like eating, sleeping, moaning and shambling around with their arms outstretched

3.The Real Rage Virus

In the movie, it was a virus that turned human beings into mindless killing machines. In real life, we have a series of brain disorders that do the same thing. They were never contagious, of course. Then, Mad Cow Disease came along. It attacks the cow's spinal cord and brain, turning it into a stumbling, mindless attack cow.

When Mad Cow gets in humans, they call it Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Check out the symptoms:

•Changes in gait (walking)
•Hallucinations
•Lack of coordination (for example, stumbling and falling)
•Muscle twitching
•Myoclonic jerks or seizures
•Rapidly developing delirium or dementia

2.Neurogenesis

You know all that conversy out there about stem cell research? Well, the whole thing with stem cells is that they can basically be used to re-generate dead cells. Particularly of interest to zombologists like ourselves is neurogenesis, the method by which they can re-grow dead brain tissue.

You can see where this is going.

You wanted the undead to make an appearance in this article? Well, here you go, you creepy bastards.
Science can pretty much save you from anything but brain death; they can swap out organs but when the brain turns to mush, you're gone. Right? Well, not for long. They're already able to re-grow the brains of comatose head trauma patients until they wake up and walk around again.
Couple that with the new ability to keep a dead body in a state of suspended animation so that it can be brought back to life later, and soon we'll be able to bring back the dead, as long as we get to them quickly enough.

1.Nanobots

Nanobots are a technology that science apparently engineered to make you terrified of the future. We're talking about microscopic, self-replicating robots that can invisbily build--or destroy--anything. Vast sums of money are being poured into nanotechnology. Sure, at some level scientists know nanobots will destroy mankind. They just can't resist seeing how it happens. Scientists have already created a nano-cyborg, by fusing a tiny silicone chip to a virus. The first thing they found out is these cyborgs can still operate for up to a month after the death of the host. Notice how nano scientists went right for zombification, even at this early stage. They know where the horror is.
According to studies, within a decade they'll have nanobots that can crawl inside your brain and set up neural connections to replace damaged ones. That's right; the nanobots will be able to rewire your thoughts. What could possibly go wrong?

Cracked

I always thought the idea behind the movie Quarantine was plausible. A genetically modified version of Rabies whereby one was fully infected within hours not days or weeks.

Would be pretty close to zombies so to speak.

This is creepy.
It makes you wonder how many Dr. Frankensteins there are out there and
if that doesn't scare the *&^^ out of you....... I don't know what will.

It's not a matter of if this will happen, it's just a matter if when:
www.popsci.com...

Interesting read. Yes these things would cause some damage, but none of them would make you wander around with the sole purpose of eating flesh(Maybe nanobots, but for what purpose?).

If there is a zombie apocalypse, i don't think it would be like how a lot of people are imagining it.

i already think its beginning ive been trying to tell everyone that theres contaminants all around u for the pancreatic cancer mutant disease its gonna start happenning dec 21 2012

I love everything zombie , BUT , zombies are scientifically impossible , and if they did EVER exist , the outbreak would last for a few weeks , maybe a month or two , then the bodies would just rot.

stiff joints dont loosen up when ya dead ma friend , Zeds = can`t ever happen..... and thats the way i like it.

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They forgot the virus from the Venus probe!!!

Well, reading this thread has just fully creeped me out, it's all very interesting though, I wonder if any of them situations would ever actually happen. The nanotechnology stuff is pretty odd too, I've read some stuff on it in the past but never knew how advanced it was, who else thinks that this could be the future of the human race? everything done with nanotechnology, brainwashing us...