Tag Archives: Contagion

Nearly every zombie film tells us that the zombie pathogen will spread rapidly throughout the human population. One single zombie can wreak havoc on an ...

It’s a common scene in many zombie films. Barbed-wire lined fences. A heavily armed military presence checking body temperatures. Spotlights shining over crowds of panicked ...

You already know the story of Typhoid Mary; an infamous Irish-American cook responsible for infecting more than fifty people with typhoid fever. During the twentieth ...

Great news for mad scientists, genocidal maniacs, and those of you who simply can’t wait for a zombie apocalypse; the United States government has recently ...

A thirteen year-old Australian girl is leading the call for more government-funded research into the spread of a horrible flesh-eating disease after a painful infection ...

Science writer and blogger Kyle Hill recently explored the unusual virology of The Walking Dead in a fascinating new article for Discover Magazine. And his ...

WARNING: THE VIDEO EMBEDDED BELOW CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES. PLEASE BE ADVISED. A dangerous flesh-eating drug popular in Russia and the Ukraine may have made its ...