Drills of the dead: Maine prepares for zombie attack
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Mon Jun 25, 2012 3:59 pm » by One-23
WTF we've had talk of a zombie epidemic that was put down to designer drugs, recent talk about avian flue mutating - http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/new ... 379601.cms, leaks out of CDC facilities- http://edition.cnn.com/2012/06/21/polit ... index.html, rabies viruses - just google and see. Someone somewhere just isn't coming clean - time to head for the there hills 
Emergency officials in Maine have taken part in a training exercise in preparation for a zombie apocalypse. This comes just weeks after the federal government publicly denied the existence of zombies.
Around 100 emergency responders from eight different counties participated in the event in the quiet city of Bangor.
The premise: an unknown virus originating from Jamaica has reached Maine, turning the infected into zombies. Once infected, the virus quickly spreads to the brain, and turns the host into a full-fledged zombie, who has only one thing on its mind: biting other people.
The officials were armed with two would-be vaccines – one to prevent the infection from reaching the brain, and one to bring the zombies back to life.
“We have identified in several states, particularly Texas, New York, Illinois outbreaks of these civil disturbances and biting,” one official said. “And in conjunction with that there are also widespread power outages.”
The event may have been a staged act, with locals playing zombies, but it gave emergency responders an opportunity to prepare for a real life epidemic.
“This gives us the opportunity to do something a little bit different, but it still has the same principles that would apply in a real situation,” Kathy Knight, director of the Northeastern Maine Regional Resource Center told the Bangor Daily News. Emergency workers "need to figure out what they need, how they’re going to respond and how they are going to share their resources to respond to the disaster. They need to know who to go to outside their community to find the resources they don’t have, so it’s a different twist.”
The training exercise comes just several weeks after the US Center for Disease Control publicly denied the existence of zombies.
Read more http://rt.com/usa/news/maine-zombie-apo ... drill-630/
Emergency officials in Maine have taken part in a training exercise in preparation for a zombie apocalypse. This comes just weeks after the federal government publicly denied the existence of zombies.
Around 100 emergency responders from eight different counties participated in the event in the quiet city of Bangor.
The premise: an unknown virus originating from Jamaica has reached Maine, turning the infected into zombies. Once infected, the virus quickly spreads to the brain, and turns the host into a full-fledged zombie, who has only one thing on its mind: biting other people.
The officials were armed with two would-be vaccines – one to prevent the infection from reaching the brain, and one to bring the zombies back to life.
“We have identified in several states, particularly Texas, New York, Illinois outbreaks of these civil disturbances and biting,” one official said. “And in conjunction with that there are also widespread power outages.”
The event may have been a staged act, with locals playing zombies, but it gave emergency responders an opportunity to prepare for a real life epidemic.
“This gives us the opportunity to do something a little bit different, but it still has the same principles that would apply in a real situation,” Kathy Knight, director of the Northeastern Maine Regional Resource Center told the Bangor Daily News. Emergency workers "need to figure out what they need, how they’re going to respond and how they are going to share their resources to respond to the disaster. They need to know who to go to outside their community to find the resources they don’t have, so it’s a different twist.”
The training exercise comes just several weeks after the US Center for Disease Control publicly denied the existence of zombies.
Read more http://rt.com/usa/news/maine-zombie-apo ... drill-630/
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Mon Jun 25, 2012 4:37 pm » by Thor
You don't really need a virus to turn people into zombies. Just give them HD TV, some MC Donalds, and and iPhone and they are ready to be declared brain dead! 
Edited for spelling.
Edited for spelling.
Mon Jun 25, 2012 4:50 pm » by Cosmine
There Are Zombies All Around Us!
1. Zombie Ant
Leaf-cutter ants in Southeast Asia have their minds controlled by an infectious fungus called Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, which makes the ant walk to the perfect position in the forest before killing its host, bursting through the ant’s skull, and releasing its spores into the forest.
But, there’s more, ants have been targeted by another creature, and that is a butterfly!
Maculina rebeli, a European butterfly, lay eggs that exude the scent of ant queens.
Worker ants welcome them into their colony. The butterflies emerge as caterpillars which are fed by the ants.
The ants treat them as their own young, or even better than ordinary ant larvae since they perceive the caterpillars to be queen ant larvae.
Worker ants will even defend the caterpillars against their own queen!
2. Zombie Crabs
A barnacle named Sacculina wants to nest inside a crab and it will look for a place to enter the crab’s body.
When it does, it will leave its shell behind, not needing it anymore as it has the crab! Inside, Sacculina sets up shop, growing tendrils through the crab’s body and slowly feeding on it.
It castrates the crab (if male) and effectively turns the crab into a female nanny for its young. The barnacle bores a hole open in the crab’s shell big enough to let male Sacculina in to mate.
The zombie crab treats the Sacculina eggs and larvae as its own, having lost the will to do anything but serve its parasite master.
3. Zombie Caterpillar
Glyptapanteles is a wasp that lays its eggs in the body of a caterpillar. This is a three layered parasitic infection.
The wasps engage the help of a virus (oh really?!), or more accurately a polydnavirus that has been genetically modified by the wasps, to disable the caterpillar’s immune system, allowing the wasp eggs to survive.
The eggs hatch and feed on the caterpillar, but do not kill it. Instead, the caterpillar stops developing and spends the rest of its life protecting the wasp larva, even going as far as spinning its own cocoon around the wasp pupae.
When the adult wasp emerges from its cocoon, the zombie caterpillar finally tastes the sweet release of death.
4. Zombie Grasshoppers
The parasitic hairworm Spinochordodes tellinii is deadly to grasshoppers.
Once eaten by a grasshopper or cricket, the larval worm produces proteins that affect the insect’s brain and nervous system.
By the time the worm reaches adulthood, the insect is completely under its power.
The zombie grasshopper commits suicide by jumping into water, where the worm will emerge and look for a mate.
5. Zombie Cockroaches
The female jewel wasp, injects its tetrodotoxin into a cockroach’s brain, shutting down the roach’s fight-or-flight response.
The wasp then leads the drugged bug into its burrow, lays its eggs upon the cockroach’s abdomen and, eight days later, the larvae hatch and feed upon the roach, burrowing into its innards.
The cockroach is alive throughout and under the wasp’s control.
6. Zombie Fish
The parasitic worm Euhaplorchis californiensis infects three other species in a cycle, and alters the behavior of two of them.
First, the eggs are consumed by horn snails. While living inside a snail, sometimes for several generations, Euhaplorchis inhibits the snail’s fertility.
The parasite will eventually leave the snail and infect the gills of a killifish.
The worms will surround the fish’s brain and cause it to swim near the surface and wiggle around.
This makes the fish more likely to be eaten by a bird, which is what Euhaplorchis wanted in the first place.
The digestive system of a bird is where the worm lays its eggs, which are excreted onto the beach where snails can reach them.
A step forward for the zombification
We all know how zombies are portrayed in movies today, undead humans with deteriorated body functions except for the brain, which is functional, therefore you need to destroy the brain to kill the zombie (duh!).
A proteinaceous infectious particle, or prion, is the infectious agents that brought us mad cow disease.
When a misshapen prion enters our system, as in the case of mad cow, the rest of our prions take on its shape and the mind literally begins turning into mush.
And since prions aren’t even alive, they are nearly impossible to destroy.
There are no known cures for prion-based diseases, and the proteins can still infect others years after their host-victim has died.
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.
Prions aren’t airborne…yet. But a new study from a group of pathologists in Zurich, Switzerland took concentrations of aerosolized prions and exposed mice to the spray.
It turned out to be 100 percent lethal.
Now, doesn’t that fill you with optimism?!
http://www.zombieplace.com/there-are-zo ... -around-us
1. Zombie Ant
Leaf-cutter ants in Southeast Asia have their minds controlled by an infectious fungus called Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, which makes the ant walk to the perfect position in the forest before killing its host, bursting through the ant’s skull, and releasing its spores into the forest.
But, there’s more, ants have been targeted by another creature, and that is a butterfly!
Maculina rebeli, a European butterfly, lay eggs that exude the scent of ant queens.
Worker ants welcome them into their colony. The butterflies emerge as caterpillars which are fed by the ants.
The ants treat them as their own young, or even better than ordinary ant larvae since they perceive the caterpillars to be queen ant larvae.
Worker ants will even defend the caterpillars against their own queen!
2. Zombie Crabs
A barnacle named Sacculina wants to nest inside a crab and it will look for a place to enter the crab’s body.
When it does, it will leave its shell behind, not needing it anymore as it has the crab! Inside, Sacculina sets up shop, growing tendrils through the crab’s body and slowly feeding on it.
It castrates the crab (if male) and effectively turns the crab into a female nanny for its young. The barnacle bores a hole open in the crab’s shell big enough to let male Sacculina in to mate.
The zombie crab treats the Sacculina eggs and larvae as its own, having lost the will to do anything but serve its parasite master.
3. Zombie Caterpillar
Glyptapanteles is a wasp that lays its eggs in the body of a caterpillar. This is a three layered parasitic infection.
The wasps engage the help of a virus (oh really?!), or more accurately a polydnavirus that has been genetically modified by the wasps, to disable the caterpillar’s immune system, allowing the wasp eggs to survive.
The eggs hatch and feed on the caterpillar, but do not kill it. Instead, the caterpillar stops developing and spends the rest of its life protecting the wasp larva, even going as far as spinning its own cocoon around the wasp pupae.
When the adult wasp emerges from its cocoon, the zombie caterpillar finally tastes the sweet release of death.
4. Zombie Grasshoppers
The parasitic hairworm Spinochordodes tellinii is deadly to grasshoppers.
Once eaten by a grasshopper or cricket, the larval worm produces proteins that affect the insect’s brain and nervous system.
By the time the worm reaches adulthood, the insect is completely under its power.
The zombie grasshopper commits suicide by jumping into water, where the worm will emerge and look for a mate.
5. Zombie Cockroaches
The female jewel wasp, injects its tetrodotoxin into a cockroach’s brain, shutting down the roach’s fight-or-flight response.
The wasp then leads the drugged bug into its burrow, lays its eggs upon the cockroach’s abdomen and, eight days later, the larvae hatch and feed upon the roach, burrowing into its innards.
The cockroach is alive throughout and under the wasp’s control.
6. Zombie Fish
The parasitic worm Euhaplorchis californiensis infects three other species in a cycle, and alters the behavior of two of them.
First, the eggs are consumed by horn snails. While living inside a snail, sometimes for several generations, Euhaplorchis inhibits the snail’s fertility.
The parasite will eventually leave the snail and infect the gills of a killifish.
The worms will surround the fish’s brain and cause it to swim near the surface and wiggle around.
This makes the fish more likely to be eaten by a bird, which is what Euhaplorchis wanted in the first place.
The digestive system of a bird is where the worm lays its eggs, which are excreted onto the beach where snails can reach them.
A step forward for the zombification
We all know how zombies are portrayed in movies today, undead humans with deteriorated body functions except for the brain, which is functional, therefore you need to destroy the brain to kill the zombie (duh!).
A proteinaceous infectious particle, or prion, is the infectious agents that brought us mad cow disease.
When a misshapen prion enters our system, as in the case of mad cow, the rest of our prions take on its shape and the mind literally begins turning into mush.
And since prions aren’t even alive, they are nearly impossible to destroy.
There are no known cures for prion-based diseases, and the proteins can still infect others years after their host-victim has died.
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.
Prions aren’t airborne…yet. But a new study from a group of pathologists in Zurich, Switzerland took concentrations of aerosolized prions and exposed mice to the spray.
It turned out to be 100 percent lethal.
Now, doesn’t that fill you with optimism?!
http://www.zombieplace.com/there-are-zo ... -around-us
Mon Jun 25, 2012 5:13 pm » by Thor
Cosmine wrote:There Are Zombies All Around Us!
1. Zombie Ant
Leaf-cutter ants in Southeast Asia have their minds controlled by an infectious fungus called Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, which makes the ant walk to the perfect position in the forest before killing its host, bursting through the ant’s skull, and releasing its spores into the forest.
But, there’s more, ants have been targeted by another creature, and that is a butterfly!
Maculina rebeli, a European butterfly, lay eggs that exude the scent of ant queens.
Worker ants welcome them into their colony. The butterflies emerge as caterpillars which are fed by the ants.
The ants treat them as their own young, or even better than ordinary ant larvae since they perceive the caterpillars to be queen ant larvae.
Worker ants will even defend the caterpillars against their own queen!
2. Zombie Crabs
A barnacle named Sacculina wants to nest inside a crab and it will look for a place to enter the crab’s body.
When it does, it will leave its shell behind, not needing it anymore as it has the crab! Inside, Sacculina sets up shop, growing tendrils through the crab’s body and slowly feeding on it.
It castrates the crab (if male) and effectively turns the crab into a female nanny for its young. The barnacle bores a hole open in the crab’s shell big enough to let male Sacculina in to mate.
The zombie crab treats the Sacculina eggs and larvae as its own, having lost the will to do anything but serve its parasite master.
3. Zombie Caterpillar
Glyptapanteles is a wasp that lays its eggs in the body of a caterpillar. This is a three layered parasitic infection.
The wasps engage the help of a virus (oh really?!), or more accurately a polydnavirus that has been genetically modified by the wasps, to disable the caterpillar’s immune system, allowing the wasp eggs to survive.
The eggs hatch and feed on the caterpillar, but do not kill it. Instead, the caterpillar stops developing and spends the rest of its life protecting the wasp larva, even going as far as spinning its own cocoon around the wasp pupae.
When the adult wasp emerges from its cocoon, the zombie caterpillar finally tastes the sweet release of death.
4. Zombie Grasshoppers
The parasitic hairworm Spinochordodes tellinii is deadly to grasshoppers.
Once eaten by a grasshopper or cricket, the larval worm produces proteins that affect the insect’s brain and nervous system.
By the time the worm reaches adulthood, the insect is completely under its power.
The zombie grasshopper commits suicide by jumping into water, where the worm will emerge and look for a mate.
5. Zombie Cockroaches
The female jewel wasp, injects its tetrodotoxin into a cockroach’s brain, shutting down the roach’s fight-or-flight response.
The wasp then leads the drugged bug into its burrow, lays its eggs upon the cockroach’s abdomen and, eight days later, the larvae hatch and feed upon the roach, burrowing into its innards.
The cockroach is alive throughout and under the wasp’s control.
6. Zombie Fish
The parasitic worm Euhaplorchis californiensis infects three other species in a cycle, and alters the behavior of two of them.
First, the eggs are consumed by horn snails. While living inside a snail, sometimes for several generations, Euhaplorchis inhibits the snail’s fertility.
The parasite will eventually leave the snail and infect the gills of a killifish.
The worms will surround the fish’s brain and cause it to swim near the surface and wiggle around.
This makes the fish more likely to be eaten by a bird, which is what Euhaplorchis wanted in the first place.
The digestive system of a bird is where the worm lays its eggs, which are excreted onto the beach where snails can reach them.
A step forward for the zombification
We all know how zombies are portrayed in movies today, undead humans with deteriorated body functions except for the brain, which is functional, therefore you need to destroy the brain to kill the zombie (duh!).
A proteinaceous infectious particle, or prion, is the infectious agents that brought us mad cow disease.
When a misshapen prion enters our system, as in the case of mad cow, the rest of our prions take on its shape and the mind literally begins turning into mush.
And since prions aren’t even alive, they are nearly impossible to destroy.
There are no known cures for prion-based diseases, and the proteins can still infect others years after their host-victim has died.
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.
Prions aren’t airborne…yet. But a new study from a group of pathologists in Zurich, Switzerland took concentrations of aerosolized prions and exposed mice to the spray.
It turned out to be 100 percent lethal.
Now, doesn’t that fill you with optimism?!
http://www.zombieplace.com/there-are-zo ... -around-us
Oh Mother
NO... NO... NO... *jumps in front of train*
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