Through our relaxation of watching and playing with our mass media zombies, we fail to realize what this creature symbolizes. Our pop culture shows it in various ways among the different media.
An Unlikely Virus:
The Center for Disease Control makes a connection between rabies and zombiism, that both viruses are spread when bitten. But how likely is it really that you can be turned into a zombie because you were bitten by something with rabies? We have antibiotics for that, so it's an unlikely assumption.
I Am Legend:
Watch the 'News Report Scene' from I Am Legend.
Then there's cures for incurable cancers that, in the end, causes world wide chaos turning everyone into vampire-zombies. Robert Neville, military biologist-scientist, then creates the cure 3 years later.
Resident Evil
The movie shows that Umbrella Corp. produced pharmaceuticals and medical equipment along with handling genetic engineering and biological weaponry. Thus allowing the corporation to hold power over the people and do as they please with their lives using them as experiments. In this way it shows that the one who holds the biological weapon wins.
Left4Dead, Call of Duty Zombies, etc.
These zombie games expose that those who hold weapons and ammunition have power, they're going to be the ones to survive. Call of Duty does this differently though, doesn't matter how long you take on each wave of zombies, you're eventually going to die. Throughout these games though, the zombies are constantly mutating and becoming stronger (to a point) with their own special abilities, such as exploding (Left4Dead).
It's all in relation to science.
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