Could Scientists Create a Zombie Apocalypse Virus?

A zombie takeover is science fiction, right? Maybe the zombie apocalypse is actually more likely than we assume.. MEAT!

Listen to the full episode: https://youtu.be/XnO_KAgVIwg

Zombie Humans: https://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-02/fyi-could-scientists-really-create-zombie-apocalypse-virus/

Prions began to be linked to zombie-like diseases in the early 1950s, when Australian administrators were exploring the Eastern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea and discovered that members of the Fore tribe had been afflicted with a strange tremble, occasionally punctuated with bursts of uncontrollable laughter. The tribe called the disease kuru, and by the early '60s Australian doctor Michael Alpers had traced its source back to the Fore's cannibalistic funeral practices, especially brain-eating.

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