Could there be a zombie virus? Create undead? Find it out!

We all know what zombies are; those horrible undead who wander aimlessly looking for food...brains, meat...But, could there really be a zombie virus? A virus capable of creating zombies? Find out!

Could there be a zombie virus? Create undead? Find out!

Samita Andreasky, a virologist from the University of Miami, met with National Geographic to discuss the progress of her work called “the truth about zombies.” The doctor says that although It is extremely difficult to produce a zombie virus, it could happen.

The zombie virus would be a combination of the rabies virus with others like the flu and Ebola, among many others .The first two would allow the disease to be transmitted through the air, if that of rabies is mixed with that of measles it can cause personality changes, with that of encephalitis it would produce aggressiveness and very high fevers, and if we add the ebola we would have infected who bleed in spurts, as shown in the series and movies.

Getting all these combinations to occur at the same time is against nature, and such a virus would usually turn into something simply lethal.Also, once we die, we cannot come back to life , so if this virus existed, we would behave like zombies because of the virus, but without actually being dead.

Would we become a matter of minutes? The truth is that no The rabies virus, for example, shows its symptoms within ten days to a year ; anxiety, hallucinations and confusion appear after the virus has been incubated in the body Of course, this time can become significantly shorter; as little as a few hours, since viruses can mutate in an impressive way to avoid the body's defenses.

Another factor to consider, according to Andreasky, is the form of infection, since the rabies virus is transmitted by the bite of an animal, and stops at who has been bitten , so a faster infection could be through the air, as is the case with the flu.

Elankumaran Subbiah, another virologist who did not participate in the documentary, said that in a Viruses, their forms and strains can exchange genetic code fragments, through resettlement or recombination processes, but it does not work with unrelated viruses, so joining two different viruses is almost impossible.

There are many viral mutations that can be made, for example by copying errors during gene replication, or causing damage through ultraviolet light, but this over a kind of virus.

So theoretically, if we modify the rabies virus , we might think that a zombie apocalypse is not an unrealistic idea, at least that's what Andreasky thinks.

What do you think of these discoveries? Is it really so important to create a zombie virus?

To be prevented, be sure to see: How to prepare for a zombie invasion? The CDC gives these tips.