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I found out something freaky today. Zombie's are REAL

I found this on an OZORT(Order of zombie outbreak resistance tacticians)

http://www.ozort.org/index.php

1. The Virus
When talking about any "zombie virus" it is important to understand the difference between real, fiction, and fantasy. A real virus is one that already exists, a fictional virus is one that does not exist, and a fantasy virus is one that can not exist. The main difference between fiction and fantasy is that a fictional virus is based on a real virus, but is slighly different in a few key ways. A fictional virus is possible. A fantasy virus is completely made up by a storyteller, defiant of all current medical knowledge, and is simply used in order to create a work of fantasy horror. Fantasy viruses are for all intents and purposes impossible.



A. Real Viruses

These viruses already exist, and there are cases still reported every year. Our knowledge of how to treat and contain these viruses currently keeps them under control, but an outbreak of these viruses is entirely possible. These viruses are included as "zombie viruses" because the symptoms, effects, and the end result of a widespread infection are virtually identical to what would happen if there was an outbreak of a fictional zombie virus.

i. Rabies
The Rabies Virus is a species of the genus "Lyssavirus". Lyssavirus derives its name from a Greek word meaning "frenzy". All members of the Lyssavirus are RNA viruses that are characterized by their bullet shape and their numerous spines. Rabies victims are typically depicted or stereotyped by a foaming mouth, but this is not necessary.

Rabies can also be present in a "paralytic" form, which causes the infected animal or person to be quiet and withdrawn. Rabies is primarily transmitted through saliva via bite. The virus guarentees transmission by causing the infected individual to be exceptionally aggressive, often leading to a situation whereby the infected individual will bite and spread the virus to an uninfected individual. Transmission has occurred via an aerosol through mucous membranes, meaning it may be possible to transmit via a particularly salavous sneeze, but it would be nearly impossible for it to pass this way.

ii. Ebola
A severe, often fatal hemorrhagic fever that affects humans and non-human primates. Initially recognised in 1976. Named after a river in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire), this virus is one of the two filoviridae (along with Marburg virus). Ebola comes in four known flavors: Ebola-Zaire, Ebola-Sudan, Ebola-Ivory Coast (aka Ebola-Tai), and Ebola-Reston, the fourth of which has only ever caused disease in nonhuman primates. The origin of this virus is unknown. As far as research dictates, it only came into existence 30 years ago, however, it's very probable that this disease has been around for hundreds if not thousands of years. This virus spreads through minimal fluid contact, primarily found in blood and saliva. The most deadly form is Ebola-Zaire, which has a fatality rate of around 90%.



B. Fictional Viruses

These are viruses that do not actually exist yet, but could mutate or be bioengineered fairly easily from existing viruses, and would still result in a catastrophic zombie outbreak. These are the viruses OZORT focuses on most, as they are both plausible and relatively likely to happen.

i. Lyssavirus X / Lyssa X
A virus based on a mutation of the Lyssavirus, which is the broad category that Rabies belongs to. Lyssavirus X's primary mutation is a much shorter incubation period, but other than that, is pretty much identical to rabies.

ii. Filonecrosis
Filonecrosis is a member of the Filoviridae family, along with the Ebola Virus and the Marburg Virus. Filoviridae are viruses that cause severe hemorrhagic fever, causing bleeding from every orifice of the body. Necrosis is a condition characterized by the death of cells and living tissue. Whereas Ebola is characterized by incapacitating the internal organs and causing them to die while the patient bleeds from the inside out, Filonecrosis is almost the opposite, causing the lymphatic system to fail before the internal organs do, and causing the skin to turn black or grey, rot, and slough from the infected victim. A person with this condition is extremely contageous, as the entire outside of their body is essentially covered in the virus, however the person isn't especially violent, though may be suffering from extreme shock as their face and eyes begin to die and rot out while they are still able to walk around. The primary danger here is that infection will cause mass hysteria, overreaction, and possible dangerous or irrational behavior from infected individuals that may lead to further infection.



C. Fantasy Viruses
A fantasy virus is a type of virus that is scientifically or medically impossible, without needing to completely rewrite everything we know about physiology. This would include viruses that make humans able to fly, or control water with their minds, that impart supernatural powers beyond simply enhanced senses, or in this case, that allow corpses to move around like puppets on a string. Most fantasy virus zombies are equally as impossible as animated skeletons. They work great in movies, and give us a good "worst case scenario", but they also will probably never happen.

i. Solanum
A fictional virus invented by Max Brooks (the son of Mel Brooks, director of "Spaceballs" and "Blazing Saddles"), and featured in his book "The Zombie Survival Guide" and probably in his upcoming book "World War Z". This virus somehow reanimates dead tissue and allows muscles to flex without the use of ATP, oxygen, or blood flow. A medically impossible fantasy virus, its primary value is in its "it can't possibly get any worse" factor. Strongly based on the hollywood movies "Night of the Living Dead", by George Romano, which features a radioactive space virus from the planet Venus.

ii. T-Virus
Another fictional virus, this one featured in Resident Evil. It is capable of reanimating dead tissue, and again produces zombies that seem capable of surviving just find under water, have no nerve sensation at all, and a complete loss of memory of their former lives. This virus also seems capable of infecting dogs. Most viruses that can affect dogs also can affect cats, foxes, bears, and other similar mammals. They seem to only move particularly quickly while attacking.





2. Zombies

There are a lot of different types of "Zombies", as well as a number of common variations within the categories of virus. Later I'll be coming up with more scientific names for them, but basically, we have three main types.



A. Voodoo Zombies



B. Drug Zombies



C. Viral Zombies
A viral zombie is a specific type of zombie that becomes infected with a virus, and is capable of spreading the virus to others it comes in contact with. The viral zombie is the most common kind portrayed in movies and video games (such as Dawn of the Dead and Resident Evil).

When a zombie outbreak does occur, we're going to have to treat them like angry, mentally retarted bears with rabies and ebola, loaded up on PCP. This will be about how they will behave. The atrophy and open sores will be aparent, blood will seep from their gums and their mouths will bleed, bullet wounds to the chest, stomach, legs and arms will not slow them down or even catch their attention, you'll hack one of their arms off and they probably won't notice until they try to grab you with a stump, their brain functions will be shot, they'll be agitated, and their one and only goal will be to bite and infect you. They will be highly infectious, even without any teeth or finger nails, and they will not need sleep. When they overpower you, they will probably engage in cannabalistic D. Fantasy Zombies
Slow moving flesh eating ghouls rising from the grave to feast on the flesh of the living, zombies that don't need food, water, or oxygen, yet somehow live forever, never needing sleep, with superhuman strength, and sometimes with the ability to jump 20-50 feet. Definately the most dangerous type of zombie that you will most likely never encounter. These are the types of zombies we sometimes talk about, because if you can handle a zombie that can jump 20 feet up in the air and flip over a school bus, you can handle anything.






3. DEMCON - epiDEMic CONdition
The DEMCON system is loosely based on the system established by the United States in the 60's. The DEFCON (DEFensive CONdition) was designed to keep everyone on the same page as to the level of threat regarding a nuclear attack. DEMCON (epiDEMic CONdition) is a system that we have devised in order to keep people informed as to the current state of any zombie outbreaks. The six levels are informally referred to as Observe, Prepare, Perservere, Overcome, Strike, and Eliminate (O.P.P.O.S.E.).



A. DEMCON IV - Observe
This is the lowest state of alert. At this stage, we still can not simply lie back and wait for something to happen. It's always important to maintain a state of readyness. It's better to prepare for something that never happens than to be caught offguard when it does. At this point, you simply need to familiarize yourself with home defense, weaponry, and the layout of your town. Stay current on the local political state and try to anticipate what your local police officials will do in the event of a low level breakout in your town. Remember, a zombie outbreak starts with one single zombie, and while chances are good it will happen miles away, it may be your next door neighbor.
Are your local police the kind of people who will arrest and lock a zombie up in jail where he will proceed to infect other inmates, including jailers and police officers? Will they shoot to kill at a salavating nutcase who attacks them? Remember, arresting a zombie will be next to impossible, as they will easily break handcuffs and, being immune to blood loss or unconsciousness, will put up a hell of a fight to even 4-5 police officers.


B. DEMCON III - Prepare
This level means that a small outbreak is occuring somewhere in the world. Since it may only take up to 24 hours for the virus to replicate, and given the ease of transportation cross country, it may only be a few days or weeks before an outbreak comes to your home town. Any outbreak anywhere in the world must be dealt with by preparing at home. If you haven't already begun purchasing weaponry and preparing your home for a siege, this is the stage at which you will want to do so. Chances are good that the outbreak will be stifled in it's location, but theres still a fair chance that an infected individual will carry the virus across a few hundred miles before he is turned. If this outbreak is happening in your home town, you may have less than 24 hours to prepare. Now is a good time to proceed to the Retreat section of this guide.



C. DEMCON II - Perservere
It's official. The infection has spread, and there are several small outbreaks happening across the globe (or perhaps one massive one occuring in a given region). National guard has been called out to deal with a domestic crisis, and there may be light army response. If you're in an area where one of these outbreaks is occuring, chances are you can't walk the streets safely without running across a small band of zombies. There is going to be confusion as people try to figure out what is going on. As many as 20-100 zombies are in your home town, and there may be up to several thousand across the world. At this point you will want to proceed to the defend section of this guide.



D. DEMCON I - Overcome
At this point, all bets are off. The entire military and national guard has been deployed, there will be a curfew, churches are converted to hospitals, rampant chaos at the grocery stores, in the event the outbreak is occuring domestically foreign friendly military troops may even be deployed domestically to try to keep order. The government is in over its head, and your small town didn't make the list of towns the military decided were "worth" saving. At this point, it's time to either make a stand, or throw in the towel, because if every citizen doesn't start pulling the weight, we may have a serious crisis. Zombies are numbering in the hundreds of thousands. At this point, you should weigh the merits of the attack and defend sections of this guide.



E. PLAGCON - PLAGue CONdition
The PLAGCON (PLAGue CONdition) is only called when the level of emergency has exceeded preparation and is now demanding action. The viral outbreak has become a plague. These are similar to the EMERCON system employed by the USA for nuclear alertness. This catastrophy will probably take one of two possible faces.

i. National - Strike
Your country has fallen. The military is eliminated (or at least you haven't seen hide nor hair of them in weeks). You remember hearing on the news about how in a nearby town a few months ago, French, British, Russian, and Korean military forces have been deployed in your country. The few American soldires you've run across are nothing but grateful for this foreign presence. At any rate, the central body of the military is in no position to try to say no. It's been a few days since you last saw a French tank roll through your downtown streets, but it didn't slow or stop when civilans ran out into the street waving desperately for help.
You and a few people have claimed outpost at the local jail (which your ownership of is now uncontested). All those who were going to fight have fought, and lost. A national plague is occuring. At this point, your course of action is relatively irrelevant, because there will be no overcoming the zombie hoard, as there are now hundreds of millions, if not billions of zombies roving through most of North America. Do what's best for you and your team, which at this point is probably to follow the defend section of this manual.

ii. Global - Eliminate
The local threat has been halted. Nobody gets in to your country for any reason. The borders are secured, and any outbreaks are now occuring in foreign countries. The risk of them finding a way back in is present, but the local military and government have acknowledged and accepted the fact (at the very least) that a horrible plague has been spreading like wildfire. There has been talk on the news channels (which is roughly every channel on the television anymore) of the American Military being deployed to Panema to prevent zombies from wandering in from South America, and theres been further talk of trying to save the remaining civilians in England by deploying a huge army force (the largest thats been deployed since World War II) to hold the few remaining outposts. This only concerns you if you plan on joining the military to put a stop to this outbreak before it worsens. Your military officials will brief you on exactly the nature of the plague you'll be up against (remember, the virus may take different forms), but the general rules of the defend and the attack sections will serve you well.

Q: Are zombies real?
A: The threat of zombies or those exhibiting zombie like qualities are real.

Q: Why do we need to prepare for a zombie outbreak?
A: A majority of diseases and viruses thus far are spread accidentally by the hosts (meaning that the sick generally posess enough facilities to not intentionally spread their disease). Rabies seems to be an exception. A virus would do a much better job spreading if it caused its host to WANT to spread the disease it carried. Every day hundreds of viruses are discovered. A zombie creating virus is just a similar strain to a hundred diseases that already exist. We've just been lucky so far.

Q: Have any zombie outbreaks occurred?
A: None we can be certain of. The possiblity that a small zombie outbreak has occurred and was mistaken for any other viral outbreak or a cult killing isn't something we can deny. However, it would be a reckless lie to say that any factual evidence of zombie outbreaks exists.

Q: How is it possible for the dead to be alive?
A: There are a number of ways. First, it is entirely possible that a zombie is not actually living dead at all. If a virus existed posessing properties of Rabies and Ebola, the result would be what would appear to be a rotting corpse, bent on biting people, which would lead to the spread of the disease. Humans don't often suffer from full blown Rabies these days, but it's not a pretty sight.

Q: What are you preparing for?
A: Worst case scenarios. A man once said "I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of him". We take a similar approach to zombies. New strains of virus are occurring every day. The right combination of viruses could produce a rotting, infectious, mindless being, bent on chasing down, biting, attacking, killing, and infecting everything that moves. A virus exists to propogate itself. A virus' method of reproduction requires it's transmission. If a virus finds a good way to scramble the human brain significantly in a way that causes it to be spread, it will continue to spread in that fasion.

Q: How can you prepare for something that you can't define exactly?
A: We prepare for the worst case scenario. It's possible that zombies will not be able to move quickly, and will stumble slowly in the way they do in Night of the Living Dead. That would be convenient, but just the same we're going to prepare for the possibility that a zombie can run, jump, climb, and swim. We figure they'll be able to do just about anything that doesn't require excessive concentration (they may be able to run up a staircase or scramble up a baracade, but they probably won't be patient or determined or coordinated enough to climb a ladder hand over hand).

Q: Is there a cure for zombies?
A: If there is a cure for AIDS or Ebola, then there is a cure for zombies. Curing a virus is difficult, and current technology does not allow for an innoculation. Even a small amount of the virus may be enough to infect the entire host, defeating the purpose.

Q: Are there any other ways to kill a zombie other than brain damage?
A: We theorize that when zombies actually do start to spread their disease, that they will be affected by blood loss. However, it requires a lot of blood loss to kill a zombie, and we imagine it possible that the virus will keep the heart rate and breathing slow (say like that of an athlete). Fear and adrenaline are what speed the body up, and we imagine it probable that a zombie will not experience these emotions.


I don't even have gun's and ammo yet. Time to lock and load.

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Wtf, i say you should take a shovel and bat and beat the crap out of the zombies while hitting them in the head. Or, like in shawn of the dead, throw those big Black cds at them (the name slipped my mind).

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Creamy

Yesterday, North Korea blew up the moon and now zombies exist. The world is just going downhill, isn't it? Anyway, Shaun of the Dead taught me everything I needed to know about dealing with zombies: grab a big blunt weapon and knock 'em over the head with it. I'm set, I don't need to read this wish wash.

quickhand

The best weapon I believe is.........Chainsaw!!!!

Because:

1.Guns do run out of ammos.

2.You have reload and that could be fatal in the time you had left.

3.Axe are too slow.

4.Bat used too much force and you'll get tired quickly.

5.Kung Fu won't work on soo many.

6.Sword MIGHT work but you'll be tired in the end.

And when you have no other choice?
Either hide or commit suicide,but the latter isn't recommended.

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Cingal

In a word, No.

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Maver64

What the hell?......... It could happen but no.. unless theres some smartasses out there that are able to ressurect dead O.o

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FabianN

Bah, when a zombie attacks what you got to do is simple really.
First, if you're living on a small island, like Hawaii, you may be ****ed because a place like that is small and secluded. Because of that, it's easy to do a massive bombing strike.

If you are on the main-land though, that can be different. Because it can be right next to citys with civilians, what would most likely happen is they will close the infected area off with a big perimeter, and start selective cleansing of the land. You do that by cleaning up an area, and then moving the perimeter around that new cleaned area. Go at slow and steady, and it will be secussful.

Anyway, if you are on main-land, what you do is get a huge truck and fill it with food. Any and all food you can get. Stuff that can last a long time is best.
Go to a tall building. Something at least five stories. Move what food you can upstairs, and then blow out the stairs to get to the top floors. Blow out the elevators. Blow up any damn way to get up there. And I personally suggest doing it for the first two floors, just for security. Put a signal on the roof, and wait it out.

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Deimos

chainsaw runs out of petrol same as guns run out of ammo.

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corasked

well uh to my aspects of zombies,they probally wont feast for our flesh,infact theres no way they could exist and if they do all u have to do is get a melee or ranged weapon and kick *** unless its a mob of them.


in resident evil 4 they werent zombies but people under control.

so anyways u dont have to prepare.just keep being on the road.

ReGainMadness

Wth? No moon tonight?

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