Well, it took a team of scientists from the University of Ottawa and Carleton University (lead by Robert Smith?, question mark intentional) to codify and scientifically prove what any horror movie buff has known since 1968:  a zombie outbreak would probably doom civilization as we known it.  The study, actually chapter 4 of the book Infectious Diseases Modelling Research Progress, says that unless humanity fights back in a quick and decisive manner, civilization would collapse.  You can read it for yourself.

Allow me to be the first to say, “Duh.”

Humans can’t even handle flooding and hurricanes without mass panic, riots and looting, and generalized anarchy.  While authorities say they’d tell the public about a zombie attack, I don’t believe that the word would get out quickly enough to prevent the cities from being overrun, or at least severely endangered.  After all, the thing about zombies isn’t their toughness or guile or ability to fight.

Zombies are dangerous due to sheer numbers and ability to blend in with people until it is too late, as well as their ease of virus transmission/people conversion.  By the time anyone even notices them there would be hundreds.  By the time government officials realized what it was, there would be thousands (assuming they were in a population center).  The hunt for the creatures would be house-to-house, and cost many lives.  If every dead person comes back zombified, well… that means there’s trouble.

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