What is the difference between infected and zombies

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Wolfenstin View Profile View Posts. Traditional zombies are the living dead, but the infected share 'zombie' like behavior of being borderline mindless and actively agressive against any and all uninfected. The flatworm Dicrocoelium dendriticum , for instance, goes to extraordinary lengths to take over the motor controls of ants.

Why ants? While other animals died out over the long history of life on Earth, ants survived—and these piggy-backing parasites came along for the ride. Ants have a better track record, are easier to control, and there are many, many more of them for you to command. Further up in complexity we turn to worms that hijack crickets. Then, persuaded by these worms, the crickets seek water and dive in—a dangerous activity for the cricket, who is essentially leaving its habitat behind.

The worms burrow out and lay their eggs. There are many more examples of insects that lose their minds, but what about more complex animals? This parasite can cause an infection known as toxoplasmosis, which is generally thought to cause only mild effects in most people. Some evidence also suggests that adult humans with the parasite may have personality changes such as increased recklessness, which may lead to a higher chance of death.

The extent of the human personality shifts caused by toxoplasmosis is still being investigated, but we do know that the infection can be disastrous for mice. Infected mice and rats lose their fear of cats, and so are more likely to be eaten. The fact that the single-celled toxoplasma can change mammalian minds suggests that we may be more susceptible to personality changes by parasites than we might think.

Moving on to diseases with more noticeable human symptoms, how about coordination problems, tremors and shaking limbs? Human cannibalism leads to its onset, rather than the disease causing cannibalism.

Dementia, memory loss, personality changes, psychosis, jerky movements, difficulty walking, involuntary movements … these symptoms are frightening and a little zombie-like. Prion diseases work by affecting the nervous system are you noticing a trend?

Prions themselves are little misshapen proteins that tell other proteins to become misshapen, like irresistible origami instructions that are shared through the body. Sometimes it takes decades for symptoms of these diseases to show up but, eventually, they manifest into catastrophic, so-far incurable conditions. Prion diseases are rare nowadays but, with a drop in human hygiene perhaps due to an apocalypse , they may rise again …. Rabies affects mammals such as cats, dogs, cows, and humans.

Rabies works by infecting—you guessed it—the nervous system. Violence, inability to move parts of the body, confusion, loss of consciousness—these symptoms closely mirror modern incarnations of zombies.

But, like kuru and vCJD, the result of rabies is death. Even so, perhaps rabies could one day mutate into something else. The zombie ant may go on temporarily as an undead vessel for its fungus puppet masters, but it will never walk again. Medical advances have extended our lives and altered our definition of death: resuscitation, defibrillation, surgery, the awakening of those in comas … we keep getting better at coming back.

But these medical interventions are not contagious. And, while near-death trauma can change us, no one revived after their heart has stopped has returned as a full-on zombie. There are still horrific diseases and parasites and other afflictions, but none that lead to potentially continuous cycles of undeath after death.

It somehow hijacks live and dead nervous systems to turn humans and corpses into stumbling, drunken, convulsing beings, and it uses chemical cocktails to modify our behaviour towards aggression and cannibalism. With this type of modelling we can use maths—together with our knowledge of zombies—to work out the outcome of a zombie apocalypse, and figure out what we need to do to survive. The mathematicians began by interpreting the zombie scenario to include these three states of being:.

Zombies don't mutate into different creatures. Resident Evil Remake, zombie goes down without a decapitation or burnt corpse, it gets back up later as a crimson head zombie which are faster, hit harder and are all around bastards, which are also implied to mutate further into Lickers. Also the zombies that had plant mutations from RE Outbreak file 2. Quarantine, made in , mutated rabies strain causes people to turn into zombie like creatures, and yes, they do try to eat the non-infected people.

I am the true originator of the Cookie Demon theory on the SH2 and 3 boards. See this is the problem here, you people got this idea in your head that there's only ever been one "true" zombie type when the fact of the matter is, zombies are fictional creatures and can be written however the hell the writer wants them to be, whether it's running zombies or zombies that crawl on the goddamned ceiling, I am a dedicated member of the "Walter Sullivan Is Bad-Ass" group!!!

Lol that's a mutated strain first of all second of all there still not zombies third of all that's one of the worst horror movies ever made n so is the sequal. Mutated strain yes, but it's still rabies. Yes they are very much zombies. What the hell does the quality of the movie have to do with anything?

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