Zombie Science

Zombie history is somewhat sketchy at best. Now bear in mind that we are not talking about island voodoo hoodoo or movie Zombies created by some screen writer. Believe me when I tell you that once your past all of the old cliche's it gets real scary. The research that has been done by our team has uncovered that zombies have a central origin and come into being basically the same way the world over. It all starts with an airborne pathogen that has allot of similarities to the mange mite that can infect cats and dogs. From here on we call that pathogen Z. In the case of mange the mother is the carrier and her offspring are infected with mites. During times of stress or when the immune system goes down the mites come out of stasis and attack the host. In the case of the Z pathogen certain people are genetically predisposed to be carriers of Z. We have come to believe that in ancient times those people who carried the Z pathogen were actually survivors who were genetically superior because of their symbiotic relationship with the Z pathogen. Our studies have shown that in those ancient time carriers were aided in recovery from cuts, scrapes and even deep wounds because Pathogen Z could regenerate the epidermis as well subcutaneous tissue and fight off infections.

Now comes the kicker at some point the hosts became carriers and the Z pathogen mutated. We don't know what caused the mutation but it seems to have attached itself to one strand of DNA. Those with the Z marker are living hosts who also pass on the gene as well as the pathogen to their offspring. When one of these people is subjected to the right kind stimuli they turn into what we now call Zombies. We can only assume that the kind of stress that causes Z to come out of stasis would also kill the host ninety nine time out of a hundred but then there is that one time when the host is subjected to something that causes catastrophic stress and just before the body draws breath for the last time Z takes over. It is at this point that the host goes into a deep sleep that can last from a few hours to a few days. During this time Z is bonding with the host and trying to regenerate as much living tissue as it can. This of course is a loosing battle as the pathogen cannot hope to regenorate the millions of cells required. Because of this life or undead life can last for up to a week sometime two. But in all cases the end is still the same rotten corpse. We have seen three stages of Z in our research.

Each zombie moves through these stages differently some may take days others a few hours. During the time of hybernation the Z pathogen begins to rewire the brain. The reason for this is simple the only way to fuel tissue regerration is with protien and I mean massive amounts of protien. This is facilitated by shutting down all of the prvious pathways in the brain and only leaving only one basic instinct intact... hunger. It is during feeding that zombies can infect non carriers and turn them into one of the living dead.