Why do zombie movies make animals not zombies? Scientifically consider this
by Alex Iby
One of the popular genres that gathers great popularity both at home and abroad, such as the " Walking Dead " series of popular overseas dramas and the movie " Do not Stop the Camera! " Is "Zombies". In such a zombie thing, many people are infected with some kind of virus and transform into zombies, but when animals do not participate in the story at all, a strange event that "some people are not zombies " happens I will. Science media Live Science is seriously considering a slight incongruity feeling while watching such movies and dramas.
Why Do not Animals Turn into Zombies in 'The Walking Dead'?
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Popular overseas drama "Walking Dead" on which Series 9 is broadcasting at the time of article creation is a popular "zombie thing" whose broadcasting continues from 2010. With such a walking dead, the human civilization society has been almost destroyed by the pandemic, and the main characters appearing in it are transformed into walkers (zombies) one after another. The protagonists who are deprived of civilization society and mechanical technology by a large amount of zombies have established their own community to rebuild the human society once again and nurture animals such as horses as food and transportation means among them.
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It is unknown what kind of pathogens in humans are going to transform humans into zombies and it is possible that they are caused by bacteria, viruses, fungi, or unknowns that came from space. But is there really a possibility that extensively spread "zombied virus" will only affect human beings?
Live Science hits this question to Tara Smith who works as a microbiologist and epidemic epidemiologist at Kent State University. Mr. Smith says, "Some viruses have very high species specificity (for example, the characteristics that humans and monkeys are infected with syphilis, but other animals are not infected)" "Other measles And smallpox are infected only by humans and it seems that viruses will not transfer from humans to other species ", he says that there are viruses affecting only some animals .
Of course, not all viruses infect only a single species. According to Mr. Smith, there is a possibility that Ebola hemorrhagic who wrested all over the world in 2014 infected not only humans but also bats, spreading the damaged area.
In addition, hantaviruses also infect rodents, human beings inhaling dry aerosolized feces discharged from infected rodents sometimes hunt virus enters the human body That's right. Mr. Smith points out that the walking dead zombie virus may have spread the infection in the same way.
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There is also the possibility that the virus has a big influence on some animals like the influenza virus. Mr. Smith says, "Some influenza viruses affect a wide range of species, H1N1 has appeared in 2009." H1N1 is a swine influenza that became popular among pigs, became infected with humans, and when it appeared in 2009 it has become popular all over the world, and the A Soviet Union, which had been in fashion before the adventure It is also an influenza that continues to spread out around the world since 2009, instead of type.
In Season 4 of Walking Dead, the protagonists Rick formed a community in the prison, where he was doing agriculture and raising pigs. However, on the way, the pig died of an unknown disease and in the same way human beings died of unknown infectious diseases, eventually becoming zombies. It is unknown whether this has died from some virus or infected with swine influenza. However, Live Science said that the possibility that it was swine influenza is fully considered.
However, the pigs who died of a mysterious disease did not become zombies within the scope of the image. Therefore, Mr. Smith says, "Whatever the cause, the symptoms of zombieization are considered to be peculiar to humans at the moment, otherwise they should be watching zombies of animals somewhere" , The zombie virus in the world of Walking Dead is said to have at least the "current stage" only affecting humans.
Mr. Smith says, "Viruses are directional, meaning they can only bind to certain types of cells, virus proteins can react to cells that are ubiquitous in all animals and mammals, There are cases that react to truly specific cells, "he says. In the case of Walking Dead, it is speculated that a rare protein that reacts only to a cell unique to humans may be a zombie virus.
As an expert on infectious diseases, Mr. Smith summarizes what should be done to suppress infections to zombies several times in the past. According to her, since the zombie virus is basically the same as a usual pathogen, wash hands when slaughtering livestock, tightly fire when cooking meat and avoid scratches and lacerations It is. Also, I advise "Do not touch blood as much as possible".
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