National Wildlife Federation naturalist David Mizejewski recently published an article (on BoingBoing) in which he examines a little discussed zombie apocalypse topic. Exactly how would ...
Read More »CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS HEADS TO UNITED STATES
Officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have recently reported an alarming increase in the number of Chikungunya cases throughout the Caribbean. While ...
Read More »DON’T SET THAT ZOMBIE ON FIRE!
The 1985 cult classic Return of the Living Dead is remembered best for giving us the first zombies ever to say “brains”, and the first ...
Read More »30,000 YEAR OLD GIANT SIBERIAN VIRUS REVIVED!
Scientists have discovered a new type of virus in 30,000-year-old permafrost and managed to resurrect it, producing an infection. In December of last year, we ...
Read More »ZOMBIE MOSQUITOES IN GEORGIA
In May, 1955 the U.S. Government secretly released hundreds of thousands of yellow fever mosquitoes on the unsuspecting residents of the State of Georgia. The ...
Read More »WHY ZOMBIE VENOM MAKES MORE SENSE
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 ...
Read More »SUPERBUGS, FAKE BOOBS & ZOMBIES
Providing yet another sign that the human race is doing everything it can to speed up the arrival of the coming zombie plague, researchers in ...
Read More »KROKODIL: THE RUSSIAN FLESH-EATING DRUG
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 ...
Read More »IN SEARCH OF DEADLY ANCIENT VIRUSES
An old theory has found new life as scientists and researchers revive the fear of deadly ancient viruses. The idea is that a dramatic change ...
Read More »DID INFECTIOUS SNAILS INVADE TEXAS?
Early last week it was widely reported that a giant and dangerous species of snail had invaded Texas. Word quickly spread that the Giant African ...
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