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Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Panic: Zombies in the rear view mirror

by Jack Brummet

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Friday, October 10, 2014

Ebola Zombies?

By Jack Brummet, Outbreak Ed.
Snopes recently debunked the rumor/urban legend that Ebola was causing people to rise from the dead. Read the entire on Snopes.com

"On 5 October 2014, the Huzlers web site published an article positing that an "Ebola zombie" had been captured and photographed in Liberia. The story came hot on the heels of the CDC's announcement that a man who had traveled from Liberia to Dallas had fallen critically ill after contracting the Ebola virus. Concern over Ebola was at its peak in the United States when the site published an image of a purported "Ebola zombie," along with the following claim:

"The first reports of Ebola victims rising from the dead was reported by Liberia's National Newspaper. Initially, officials from the World Health Organization fled in shock and horror as the Ebola patients suddenly arose from the dead. After organizing military reinforcements and obtaining increased containment measures, World Health Organization's special operations staff quickly responded with military assistance and quarantined the two Ebola victims who arose from the dead.

"With Texas now infested with an unknown amount of Ebola patients, nearby Kansas has declared a state of emergency. Kansas Governor Sam Brownback has declared October "Zombie Awareness Month" and the state is on high alert for a zombie outbreak. Homes across the state are to receive pamphlets warning them of how to prevent the spread of Ebola and what to do if an Ebola Victim falls dead and then starts to show life again."

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Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Zombie Gnomes

By Mona Goldwater, Halloween Editor

Our friend T found this photo on FaceBook (https://www.facebook.com/StreetArtGermany). Sweet. "Foto by Hub09 - Social Design"

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Saturday, July 21, 2012

Max Brooks on why zombies are relevant

By Jack Brummet, Horror and thriller editor

I am reading a book of short stories by Max Brooks (author of World War Z, The Zombie Survival Guide, and other stories). In the introduction, he writes:

"I never expected the Zombie Survival Guide to be published. I wrote it to read it. The living dead continue to fascinate (and terrify) me, and the older I get, the greater my obsession grows. Zombies are a global phenomenon, the perfect lens for examining societal collapse. They are SARS, they are AIDS. They are the hurricane that drowned an entire city, or the 'master race' that burned an entire continent, they are an existential threat, a slate wiper, and have an ability to expose our own suicidal weaknesses; I'll never lose my fear of them."

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