Zombie Research Society Abuses Science to Spread Fear of Zombies
We’ve had to talk about, and dispel, the notion that any of a variety of extant diseases or infectious agents could suddenly and spontaneously become the fuel for a Zombie Apocalypse before here on the ZRC. Usually it’s some fungus that infects ants and manipulates their behavior, or Toxoplasma, whose effects on human behavior are often VASTLY overstated by the terrified bedwetters in the Anti-Zombie Movement.
Still, every day is a new opportunity to abuse actual science in the pursuit of one’s fear, I guess. Case in point from the Zombie Research Society:
In August 2010 we first reported on a dangerous new superbug living inside the artificially enhanced breasts, butts and noses of plastic surgery patients in England. Known as NDM-1, the bug is able to merge with any number of different species of bacteria to render them resistant to nearly all antibiotics.
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If a weakened zombie sickness currently exists it would need only to merge with the NDM-1 to create an unstoppable undead plague the likes of which the world has never seen.
The issue here is that bacteria infect, not typically transform, their hosts. Even the favorite bugaboo of the Zombie Paranoiac crowd, Toxoplasma gondii, doesn’t alter the host except in subtle ways by manipulating brain chemistry. They certainly don’t turn Undead.
I also have to question the reading comprehension of our rivals over at the ZRS, because their summary of the NDM-1 situation, culled from a Wired article, is grossly misleading and factually incorrect.
NDM-1 isn’t a ‘superbug’ at all; it’s not a bacterium, it’s an enzyme the gene for which bacteria can swap around amongst themselves. It is not a separate organism or a separate disease, but rather, a tool that bacteria can bundle into their genes to make themselves resistant to almost all of the best and last-resort antibiotics used in hospital settings. (Bacteria, in fact, do this sort of thing all the time, although NDM-1 is part of a broader variety of these very nasty genes to crop up recently.)
From Wired:
The acronym (for “New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase 1″) indicates an enzyme that allows common gut bacteria to denature almost all the drugs that can be used against them, leaving two or three that are inefficient or toxic. It was first identified in a resident of Sweden, of Indian origin, who had returned to India for a visit, was hospitalized there, went back to Sweden, and was hospitalized again.
That, obviously, is very bad. Bacteria possessing NDM-1 are often found to be resistant to almost all drugs used against them as a result; sometimes, literally all drugs. But it isn’t a new plague and it can’t ‘merge’ with any existing ‘Zombie sickness’. It could, at best, if that ‘sickness’ was bacterial in nature, make it resistant to antibiotics. That’s all NDM-1 does. It’s bad enough, there’s no need to exaggerate.
And certainly no need to fearmonger against Zombies in the process.
For shame, ZRS, for shame.
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