The Zombie Links – Year 2022

Year 2022

Covid can be caught from DEAD BODIES for up to 17 days, scientists warn

Covid could potentially spread from corpses to the living in a zombie-like fashion, two new studies suggest.

Scientists in Japan found traces of the coronavirus in the nasal passages and lungs of recently-deceased human and hamster corpses as many as 17 days post-mortem.

Source: dailymail.co.uk - 12.16.2022

Turning Cells Into “Zombies”: Scientists Identify the Secret That Allowed a Parasite To Infect 30% of Humans

Toxoplasma has been described as converting immune cells into Trojan horses or wandering “zombies” that spread the parasite. The recently published research provides a molecular explanation for the phenomenon and demonstrates how the parasite is much more targeted in its spread than previously thought.

Source: scitechdaily.com - 12.15.2022

'Zombie' Virus Reanimated After 50,000 Years In Siberian Permafrost

After obtaining seven ancient permafrost samples, scientists from the French National Centre for Scientific Research were able to document 13 never-before-seen viruses that had been lying dormant in the ice, Science Alert reports.

The same researchers found a 30,000-year-old virus in 2014 which was trapped in permafrost. Notably, it was still able to infect organisms. Now, they've beaten their own record with a find that's 48,500 years old, which they named Pandoravirus yedoma, according to Science Alert.

Source: zerohedge.com - 11.28.2022

Region should beware zombie’s apocalypse now: China Daily editorial

And say what you like about the Joe Biden administration, but its powers of necromancy are undeniable. It has transformed what was acknowledged to be a brain dead alliance into a blood-lusting zombie, which, while still brainless, is malleable to manipulation by presenting it with a virtualized reality in which the Cold War has never ended.

Source: chinadaily.com - 11.15.2022

What is “zombie pigeon” disease: can it be spread to humans?

Alarm bells were sounding in the United Kingdom in October. Nope, it wasn’t another economic crisis, but a bout of the so-called “zombie pigeon” disease.#

Pigeons were making odd movements and behaving strangely. They were twisted their necks to unnatural angles, were unable to eat, wandered aimlessly around in circles... Something was happening.

Source: en.as.com - 11.14.2022

Weird (political) science: OSU class creates post-zombie apocalypse government

This fall, the Oregon State University professor is teaching Political Science 110, “Governing After the Zombie Apocalypse.”

Students in the honors college class meet twice a week to figure out how to form a new government in the wake of a fictional pandemic that has wiped out 98% of the population.

Source: seattletimes.com - 11.21.2022

Indonesia's 'zombie' train to boost public transport

In a city known for monstrous traffic, "zombies" are rising up in a scary bid to get more people to use public transport.

That's the hope of Jakarta's light rapid transit operator, which has turned a train and station into the set of a bloody zombie apocalypse -- with real passengers invited to the show.

The paid attraction, which the supercity's light rail operator PT LRT Jakarta and event organizer Pandora Box launched last month, aims to promote the relatively new system and, more generally, encourage young people to take public transport.

Source: ucanews.com - 9.8.2022

Are there Zombies in China? The 2022 TikTok trend explained after article confusion

The platform has been flooded with theories that the undead creatures were in China, which the article suggested as a potential birthplace for a zombie apocalypse.

The author suggests that an outbreak would start in a Communist country since "they time and again chosen to suppress information", rather than in the UK and US as we've seen in countless horror and thriller movies.

Source: oxfordmail.co.uk - 8.9.2022

'Time traveller' from 2906 claims zombie pig will escape lab and spread virus THIS YEAR

An apparent time traveller from the future has warned humanity over a handful of extreme events that are set to occur in the coming months.

TikTok user @timevoyaging claims to be from the year 2906 and posted a video on their page with five bizarre happenings and the exact dates they will occur on.

These include a zombie pig escaping a laboratory and infecting many other pigs, aliens visiting Earth and another world being found hidden within our own.

Source: mirror.co.uk - 8.14.2022

Rise in rabies deaths in the US sparks CDC warning

This follows two years of zero rabies cases reported in the U.S. and is the highest number reported per year in over a decade, according to the CDC. The three cases, including one child, were all exposed to bats in or around their homes between Sept. 28 and Nov. 3, and none of them sought out post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP), a series of vaccines vital for preventing rabies after exposur

Source: livescience.com - 1.7.2022

U.S. had 5 rabies deaths last year, highest total in a decade – 3 deaths in last 3 months

The three cases, all stemming from contact with bats and described in the January 6, 2022, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, bring the total number of cases in 2021 to five, compared to no reported rabies cases in people during 2019 and 2020, the largest number in a decade.

Source: strangesounds.org - 11.7.2022

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Source: businessresearchinsights.com - 1.8.2022