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In order to fully understand and defeat our zombie enemy and prevent an apocalypse, we need to know the root cause of the infection.

There have been a myriad of speculations and estimates as to how the zombie apocalypse will come about.  That’s the scary thing.  All of them could be true.

Now we all know that fiction mirrors reality (or is it the other way around) and what better way to explain the zombie infection than to analyze the zombie movie classics.

Sure, we can’t believe everything we read on the internet or see on tv, but in this case these movies are based on reality and steeped in factual accuracy (or at least try to be).  I found this article that seeks to accomplish an analytical review of zombie movies to find an explanation.  Have a read, you may find it more useful than investing your hard earned dollars on another shotgun.

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The Zombie Next Door: The Science of the Walking Dead

Two weeks ago I wrote a list of five doomsday films ranked by plausibility. The response to this piece made me realize that I overlooked the most pressing apocalyptic threat of all: zombies.

The onslaught of the living dead has been a mainstay of horror cinema for decades, beginning with the Bela Lugosi vehicle White Zombie in 1932. Over the following years zombies popped up in movies as one of many monstrous villains, often filling the minion role. It wasn’t until George Romero’s groundbreaking 1968 film Night of the Living Dead that the idea of a zombie apocalypse was introduced. Romero’s cannibalistic zombies have since become the archetype used in countless films, books, and video games. The cause of the virulent plague of the walking dead varies, however. Everything from spiritual curses, viruses, chemical weapons, and alien microorganisms have been used to explain the origin of zombies. Below the jump we examine the real-world evidence behind some of these threats, and which ones you should be most worried about.

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