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This is the First Thing I’ve Seen to Make Me Think the Zombie Apocalypse May Happen

Okay, so I know about zombies. Not the undead that you see in movies but the Haitian Vodou process outlined in the book The Serpent and the Rainbow. Up until now I haven't really been concerned about widespread zombie attacks because, well I don't live in Haiti and it's not like a pharmacologically induced zombie could bite you and turn you into a zombie. Now however it appears there is a parasite that essentially turns wasps into zombies and I can totally see that happening to humans as well (scientifically). I guess there are two things that will keep me sleeping at night. One, the article points out that this complex interaction between the wasps and the parasites took years and generations to develop, and two, unless the parasites can hit us all at the same time I'm pretty sure we could find a way to extract them and prevent infestations, I hope anyway.

Parasite Turns Wasps Into Outsider Zombie Queens | Wired Science | Wired.com.