Zombies closer than we think?

[Byte Stryke]

seems that the history channel has gotten one right..

Prions could actually create a human zombie like type epidemic...

and the CDC tends to (kinda) agree http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/prions/



currently prions create zombie like symptoms but not the "undead" Status.

given how fast evolution affects lower life forms, it could be a few years....or a few weeks

[glockedandloaded]

all i have to say about that is. People are always asking me if i know Tyler Durden

[BushMasterBoy]

Never eat the brains or parts of the nervous system of any animal. Prions are parts of a virus that are able to replicate into a full virus life form. "Wasting Disease" of local deer is a form of this disease. This virus can mutate to a human form called "Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease".

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001792/

I quit eating hamburger...you never know what they put in it! When a disease transfers from an animal to human it is called a "zoonosis". Virus's can and will mutate with every infection because they use your DNA to replicate!
You think an illegal immmigrant, paid minimum wage, will care what cow parts fall in your ground meat? Did I tell you story of the botulism I got from a Wendys hamburger...

[Irving]

Do you think ANY minimum wage earner, legal or not will care what falls into your food?

[BushMasterBoy]

Do you think ANY minimum wage earner, legal or not will care what falls into your food?

I used to be a minimum wage earner as a teenager...and yes I cared about the food I prepared at the workplace. It was the 70's...today I'm not so sure! You are most likely correct Irving. Makes you want to grow your own food.

[KevDen2005]

Interesting read...I will finish my hamburger now...BECAUSE IT'S DELICIOUS

[mcantar18c]

Just got home. A beer short of full on drunk and craving a burger. Got some tasty burgerzs in the freezer and Ima fire up the grill and cook one for me and one for the dog.
Screw prions, and zombies.

[Great-Kazoo]

Not so much the minimum wage earner as the one who travels a lot. The rate of disease transmission via person going from Fla-Rio with a 1 hour lay over in Puerto Rico has been subject to untold airborne pathogens. The money passed from customer 1-2 has changed hands approximately 1K times in a week. Every time you walk through the supermarket you have walked into X amount of particulates from another shopper who sneezed, or coughed. In a room of 25 people 1 is a confirmed carrier of TB.

The number 1 cause of disease transmission is..............................Lack of hand washing.

Read the book Out Break came out in 87.
America is complacent regarding small outbreaks of illness, RE: dog food, infant formula etc from China, Lysteria most recently from Southern CO. Each and every scenario is brushed under the carpet by CDC and other agencies.
TIN FOIL Hat Time.
Each and every incident has the potential for a biological or chemical attack. We respond with out a care and go on our way. One day the threat will be real and then what?

[grrr]

You should try to avoid spreading misinformation. Prions are not virii and don't "replicate into" life forms of any sort. Prions are misfolded proteins. When they come in contact with certain other proteins they cause them to fold incorrectly & create new prions. They are not alive. They do not take over healthy living cells as every virus does.

There are also zero confirmed cases of CJD or vCJD or nvCJD caused by contact with deer suffering from CWD.

It's also very unlikely that you got botulism from from hamburger. It's also not fast food employees who make the hamburger patties. They come pre-made to the restaurants. Frozen in most cases, but fresh at Wendy's.

Never eat the brains or parts of the nervous system of any animal. Prions are parts of a virus that are able to replicate into a full virus life form. "Wasting Disease" of local deer is a form of this disease. This virus can mutate to a human form called "Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease".

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001792/

I quit eating hamburger...you never know what they put in it! When a disease transfers from an animal to human it is called a "zoonosis". Virus's can and will mutate with every infection because they use your DNA to replicate!
You think an illegal immmigrant, paid minimum wage, will care what cow parts fall in your ground meat? Did I tell you story of the botulism I got from a Wendys hamburger...

[spyder]

...of disease transmission is..............................Lack of hand washing.

^^^That part is worse than Prions. How many people have gone out to eat, and then got diarrhea? Ya, you ate someone's **** basically... Anyway, every time I see some little **** making my food without gloves on I refuse it at the counter and tell them to make the guy making the food put gloves on. I can't stand that kind of crap.