• Meuzzin@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Undead Zombies? No. I’m no virologist, but I’ve read about a Rabies variety, or certain fungal infections. Fiction-wise, World War Z, or 28 Days type “zombies”, where the body is very much functioning, but the brain has been hijacked…

    • NOT_RICK@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Which in theory with any sort of living zombie all you’d need to do is wait out the zombies for a few weeks/months while they inevitably starve to death.

      • illi@lemm.eeEnglish
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        6 months ago

        all you’d need to do is wait out the zombies for a few weeks/months

        Because wht we learned in the last couple of years is humanity as a whole is totally capable of isolating for a few months without issues

        • NOT_RICK@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          6 months ago

          Feel like watching your neighbor eat the face off of your other neighbor is a little bit more motivation to stay inside than a microscopic virus. Then again, it isn’t the most wise thing to bet against human stupidity

  • neidu2@feddit.nl
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    6 months ago

    Of the type often seen in movies where the body is rotten, no. Dead tissue doesn’t move.

    However, there are approximations:

    For starters there’s a type of fungus that hijacks ants, using it to spread its spores into other ants. It can control the ants movement to the point where it will cause the and to go to certain good spore-spread8ng places before the ant is devoured.

    Then there’s the disease that affects raindeer in some places. I don’t remember the illness, but basically the mind goes byebye while the body is left to be controlled by less and less sophisticated parts of the brain, to the point where the animal can do nothing but walk in circles.