Protein builds muscles... and zombies

Yes you read right fellow survivors. Proteins called prions may actually be the cause for zombies.

Prions are a type of protein that is created by, you guessed it, the act of eating a human brain. Many of these proteins exist and cause various diseases: two of which are Creautzfeldt-Jakob disease and Kratos disease. Creautzfeldt-Jakob disease is literally Mad Cow in humans. By eating infected meat a human can become infected. Kratos disease is hard to find information on any more because typing "Kratos" plus anything in any search engine comes up with nothing but God of War references. It is however a disease which creates the exact same symptoms Mad Cow does in cows but in humans and is caused by directly consuming the brain of another human.

Infectious? Not really, but still look at the effects:

• Twitching, uncontrolled movements.
• Aggressive behavior.
• Incoherent speech.
• Immunity to pain.
• Loss of all higher thought processes.
• Dementia and hallucinations.

And depending on which type of disease:

• Unstoppable laughter.
• Desire for human flesh (cannibalism.)
• Glazed over, "deadened" eyes.
• Sudden, uncontrollable violence.
• Murderous rage.

Sounds a little bit like the Rage virus from 28 Days Later doesn't it? And say, for instance, a group of scientists were to take these diseases, and combine them with a drug that removes the passive chemicals in our body, like they do to these mice. Looking at some of the links from that page comes up with some scary experiments when you consider that mouse and human brains work almost the same. If a scientist can do this to a mouse, he can do it to you. And it wouldn't take much for a disease like this to evolve (or be changed) into something that could be transferred by blood or saliva. Suddenly there is a human with no conscious, living in a world of his own, where other humans are a threat and he must eat them to save himself. Because his brain tells him too and his hormones don't even try to stop him. Add in a little bit of infectious tempering and you've got the perfect weapon to drop in an enemy country or even to clean up the slums of an over populated city. Think governments aren't too desperate to try it? Take a look at China. Or wars being started to lower populations or keep certain populations and races in check. And if you think doctors and scientists are too good for that kind of thinking. The world is constantly looking for ways to solve over population. As if prions weren't scary enough on their own...

Stay vigilant, may the infection never reach you, and those close to you have the resolve to do what is needed should you be so unfortunate, Mike D.