Brutal What is the likelihood of a zombie virus?

[Freixel]

Has anyone researched this topic, or is anyone a biologist or something similar?

I know there are parasites and fungi that infect insects and basically turn them into zombies.

But is it possible for something like that to happen to humans?

What are the chances of creating a 100% genuine zombie virus in a laboratory?

 

[AutistSupremacist]

No chance at all and if there was I'm 100% sure the military could deal with it in less than 24 hours.

 

[ReplaceMyJuice]

Only fungus are the closest thing for that to happen. But our bodies are too hot for them to survive as a host.

 

[ReplaceMyJuice]

Rabies. But you'll die in 1-2 weeks. Zombies are supposed to be "alive" way longer

 

[anon65]

Local racist and science coper here.

You are thinking of Cordyceps fungi. They are only able to infect insects due to them being cold-blooded (environmentally regulated body temperature). Humans have way more complex bodies, are warm blooded, and have strong immune systems.

Most things that affect the brains of humans just slowly deteriorate us until we die. (Dementia, Cancer, Prions, Drugs).

The only things similar to a zombie virus are bath salts, and rabies. But those are temporary and will kill us quickly.

 

[Freixel]

Local racist and science coper here.

You are thinking of Cordyceps fungi. They are only able to infect insects due to them being cold-blooded (environmentally regulated body temperature). Humans have way more complex bodies, are warm blooded, and have strong immune systems.

Most things that affect the brains of humans just slowly deteriorate us until we die. (Dementia, Cancer, Prions, Drugs).

The only things similar to a zombie virus are bath salts, and rabies. But those are temporary and will kill us quickly.

Rabies. But you'll die in 1-2 weeks. Zombies are supposed to be "alive" way longer

No chance at all and if there was I'm 100% sure the military could deal with it in less than 24 hours.

Okay, but rabies is a disease found in nature.

I doubt anyone here can answer me (except maybe a glownigger, hmmm).

But what about creating a zombie virus in a lab? I mean, artificially. If they could create something like AI, which used to be considered science-fiction, maybe a zombie virus could also be created by technology

(Of course, it's not going to escape and cause a catastrophe like in the movies or in Resident Evil.)

If such a thing exists, there is a 100% chance it is a government secret, and ordinary people will never know of its existence.

 

[anon65]

Okay, but rabies is a disease found in nature.

I doubt anyone here can answer me (except maybe a glownigger, hmmm).

But what about creating a zombie virus in a lab? I mean, artificially. If they could create something like AI, which used to be considered science-fiction, maybe a zombie virus could also be created by technology

(Of course, it's not going to escape and cause a catastrophe like in the movies or in Resident Evil.)

If such a thing exists, there is a 100% chance it is a government secret, and ordinary people will never know of its existence.

Possible to make? Maybe.

We can create any virus we want now with Crispr. It's quite easy in fact, just would take a lot of human trials to make sure it works. It would be impossible to make it spread quickly through bites though. Incubation period would take minimum one day or else your immune system could probably kill the virus off.

It might be able to make you go crazy and mad, attacking things you see. But a classic WWZ zombie infection? No probably not.

 

[enclavecel]

I wish it would happen so I could STALKERBanditmaxx.

 

[nazianime]

It’s probably has happened already. Not a zombie specifically but our minds being controlled by viruses. That’s probably where aggressive behavior originated from, a virus making animals aggressive but that is transmissible like HIV adapted into our systems being passed down.

That’s what most sci-fi zombie apocalypse movies bet on, some type of immortality and aggressive behavior.

 

[Animecel2D]

 

[chudt320]

Probably 0% but even if it happened i think in this day and age the military could eliminate the virus fairly easy

 

[GloomyGhoul]

I long for the day of the apocalypse. Humanity deserves to be wiped off the face of the Earth

 

[Excalibur]

Bioengineering a zombie virus could be possible, but it spreading wouldn’t cause an apocalypse.

Zombies would realistically die quickly from starvation, and regular puncture wounds and bleeding would also be deadly for them.

Zombies being immortal and immune to damage except towards their heads have their origins in folklore involving black magic.

 

[VλREN]

If a zombie outbreak happens does that mean I can ascend with Jill?

 

[SEWER_MANCER]

Zombie floif

 

[Brainy]

If you were to create a human CWD it might be the end of the world

 

[starcrapoo]

I don't mean to sound like a smartass but from a philosophy of mind perspective, we're zombies a lot of the time.

We just do things without thinking about it. We're on "Autopilot" as they say.

The modern portrayal of zombies is just that. A modern exaggerated portrayal. We're all zombies most of the time.

When you're anesthetized, most of your brain is still functional and active. You lack consciousness but your brain is still functional. That's what a zombie is basically. Technically a vegetable but you get the point.

The closest thing to an apocalyptic horror portrayal of zombies, in our times would be a soviet citizen in the siege of leningrad or stalingrad. Without food, starving, disease/lice ridden, maybe on drugs, maybe drunk, and with one mission: That is to grab someone, bludgeon them to death, and start munching away. Not everyone will do that. But a few will.

If you look at subsaharan africa or papua new guinea, there doesn't even need to be a famine or starvation. They just start eating each other during conflicts.

 

[Leon98]

Sadly it’s probably impossible even though I would like it to be real.

 

[Chud Norris72]

With bioengineering everything is posible

 

[GrAYnigger]

I find the virus from the comic "Crossed" to be a more likely option. A virus which makes everyone into based rapists, cannibals, murderers.

 

[GrAYnigger]

Zombies are less feasible from an energy perspective

 

[ihatemyselfihateyou]

Normies are zombies we are living in it

 

[gluttony]

Sadly it’s probably impossible even though I would like it to be real.

Something like the Rage Virus from 28 days later?

If zombies do happen they would just starve to death as humans survive in shelters.

 

[ANTAGONIST]

Zombies came from african delusions, they saw white people and thought they were walking corpses and this is how the zombie myth was born.

 

[Leon98]

Something like the Rage Virus from 28 days later?

If zombies do happen they would just starve to death as humans survive in shelters.

That’s true. Funnily enough they changed the lore in the new movies that they evolved to eat wildlife due to it taking place 28 years after the outbreak.