It's not the first time zombies have been used as a public health metaphor. In December , for example, the British medical journal The Lancet published a tongue-in-cheek paper titled "Zombie infections: epidemiology, treatment, and prevention.
In the new analysis, the University of Leicester undergraduates assumed that each zombie would have 90 percent success at finding and infecting one human per day — a rate that would make the zombie virus twice as contagious as the Black Death, the plague that devastated Europe in the s. Assuming a starting population of 7. At that point, the pandemic would have begun. Assuming no geographic isolation, in fact, the human population would drop to by day of the epidemic, with million zombies roaming around.
With some geographical isolation, the situation would be a tiny bit better for humans. Environmental conditions play a big role in how fast a body reaches this final stage of decomposition.
The bodies left on Mount Everest , for example, stay in relatively pristine condition, as the frozen environment severely restricts bacterial decay, she said. On the other hand, "If you don't refrigerate a normal death in the degree [Fahrenheit, or 38 degrees Celsius] Texas heat, you could start having bloat in a couple of hours. Water also changes things. Corpses sitting in water "immediately start getting soupy," Unfred said. Bugs, bacteria and scavenging animals can also accelerate the natural decay process on land or in water.
Despite missing a few components of natural decay, the zombies on "Fear the Walking Dead" are still pretty gruesome. However, "I definitely think they should incorporate more bloated bodies," Unfred said. Kimberly is the reference editor for Live Science and Space. Her favorite stories include animals and obscurities. A Texas native, Kim now lives in a California redwood forest. Live Science. User Info: BeefEaster.
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