Zombies are part of the zeitgeist and a common meme online: A Google search on "zombie" turns up 37.5 million hits!
So I guess it was only a matter of time before zombies turned up in scientific literature: "Infectious Diseases Modelling Research Progress" contains a paper by Canadian scientists who used the fictional parameters of a zombie invasion to produce a model of a generic, lethal, rapidly spreading infection. "The researchers say the exercise could help scientists model the spread of unfamiliar diseases through human populations."
Unfamiliar? Google's 37.5 million hits suggests otherwise!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8206280.stm
http://www.google.com/search?q=zombie
http://images.google.com/images?q=zombie
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