Zombie Virus Possible?

I was never really a fan of zombie stories in books or movies. Watching re-animated corpses go cannibalistic was just never interesting to me in terms of entertainment. Perhaps, for some reason, I thought these stories were “supernatural” in nature, making it creepy on both the physical and spiritual levels. But then, I learned that it could also take on a SciFi, or speculative fiction angle, as it did in I AM LEGEND, and it didn’t necessarily involve reanimation of corpses.

Still, it was a little creepy and I don’t particularly enjoy watching all the gory stuff involved.

I came across this article on National Geographic, though, that really made me think, “What if some kind of virus spread that turned people into violent, enraged, animals, at an epidemic level?” Could never happen, right? But in theory, according to this article, it could–though very unlikely.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/10/1001027-rabies-influenza-zombie-virus-science/

It would be bad enough if there was a widespread outbreak of rabid animals, but what if?

What’s your big irrational fear that gives you the creeps just thinking about it? Do you like books and movies about them? Why or why not? Let me know in the comments section below.

 

 

Joshua Graham is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, winner of the International Book Award and Forward National Literature Award. His thrillers include DARKROOM, LATENT IMAGE and BEYOND JUSTICE, and TERMINUS. Graham's works have been characterized as thought-provoking page-turners.

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