Solanum Virus – Archaeologists are buzzing over evidence an ancient zombie outbreak caused by the Solanum virus at Hierakonpolis in pre-dynastic times may have led to the formation of Egytian civilization.
Drawing inspiration from the Solanum virus research of Max Brooks classic reference work The Zombie Survival Guide (2003), intrepid archaeologists learned that in 1892, a British dig at Hierakonpolis unearthed a nondescript tomb containing a partially decomposed body, whose brain had been infected with the virus (Solanum) that turns people into zombies.
Zombie victims were decapitated on this stone to prevent an outbreak:
Zombie brain preserved in the skull of Burial 350. Analysis may provide the answer to the history of the Solanum virus and ultimately lead to its cure!
Evidence of the ancient zombie attack at Hierakonpolis is irrefutable. Scientists are applying for further research funding from the Pentagon aimed at developing a modern day army of mutant zombie killers.
Sadly, one of the top archaeologists working at the dig site became infected by the zombie virus and had to be put down:
But rumor has it he’ll be back soon to help finish the dig:
Read more about their fascinating quest for the truth behind the earliest known zombie attack in the latest issue of Archaeology magazine.
And that’s the latest news on the ancient Egyptian zombie outbreak caused by the Solanum virus.
Tags: archaeology, science, solanum virus, zombie, zombie virus
November 9th, 2007 at 10:56 am
[...] hitsusa wrote an interesting post today on Solanum VirusHere’s a quick excerptDrawing inspiration from the Solanum virus research of Max Brooks classic reference work The Zombie Survival Guide (2003), intrepid archaeologists learned that in 1892, a British dig at Hierakonpolis unearthed a nondescript tomb … [...]
November 11th, 2007 at 7:33 pm
zombies in egypt?
November 19th, 2007 at 10:25 pm
Are you guys on crack or something? The Zombie Survival Guide is a book of complete bull sheet.
November 19th, 2007 at 10:35 pm
The pictures you guys posted are fake as heck because the hand is cheap novilty toy that you can find at any store for hollowen props and joke stores. Also the virus is not air born and is only passable to the victim by bit wounds.
November 28th, 2007 at 9:50 am
This is coming from an actual article in a serious publication. True, the Zombie Survival Guide is fake, but maybe there is some truth to some of it.
Read more here:
http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/hierakonpolis/zombies.html
February 5th, 2008 at 8:58 pm
I jus want to know if this solanum virus is real or not because my dad doesnt know the disease and he’s a medical team person on the firedepartment in our county and I’ve read the zombie survival guide and it’s not that bad I think.
February 6th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
Virus Code. 00.067.0.01.006. Virus Accession number 67010006.
Synonym(s): solanum nigrum mosaic virus, solanum nodiflorum virus.
Approved acronym: SNMV.
Virus infects plants.
Description is on taxonomic level of species. Virus is an approved species in the genus. Virus belongs to the genus Sobemovirus (VC 00.067.0.01.).
Virus first reported in Solanum nodiflorum, an endemic species (Henderson, 1974). From eastern Australia. Reference(s): Greber (1965).
June 8th, 2008 at 12:43 am
I’ve read The Zombie Survival Guide. The part that I was most intersted in was the back of the book where they talk about real supposable outbreaks. But something caught my eye when I was reading it. I saw a pattern with the virus. Most supposable outbreak is near salt water. If the Solanum virus is true, could there but a parist in the water that has this virus? And when its contact with the host, it makes the host go crazy and changes physical features on the host. I might be wrong but its just a thought.
August 29th, 2008 at 10:36 pm
If you all want to know how the first person is infected by the virus is by slat water and a plant but you have to have a open wound. That’s all that I could fin on it. The Zombie Survival Guide could be fake yes but the points it makes are somewhat to unreal to not be true if you do enough studying on the virus you’ll find that a lot of well known scientists have done work on it. Go to yahoo or Google and type in Solanum studies and you’ll almost everything you want to know about it. Now am I saying this stuff is real no but it might be who knows. You guys can believe it or not but I’ll keep an open mind on this un-till I find some hard facts till then I won’t say real or not real cause I really don’t know.
September 24th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
this is real or not ?
October 12th, 2008 at 11:17 pm
your salt water theory is correct it comes from a blow fish called fuge or something like that.
in japan you have to by licenced by the gav to eat it. mostly any where els it is illegal to have any thing to do with it.
October 12th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
sorry gov not gav
November 4th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
i beleive in zombies theres way too much evidence. and all you people that say the goverment would tell us, the goverment tells us as much of a story as there is a plot line in a porno. the fact that most attacks are near an ocean or body of water is that theyre is a documented attack where a small ship crashed and was lost from record. now if the zombies dont need oxygn to survive then they could continue to survive until an ocean current carried them towards land.
there was a documented attack where a team of russian scientists and soldiers were attacked by the undead but they were able to take refuge in a prison. WELL about a week later the russian goverment unleashed a nuclear bomb on top of the site. why if it was just a prison?
after that villages in the olden days would just dissapear or be “wiped out” in a spot where they have fresh water shelter and plenty of food and farming.
the evidence is indesputible and i beleive if the goverment has to hide it then they know that they cant control it. please email me at loganpatterson75@yahoo.com if you have questions or comments.
November 4th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
im sorry my real yahoo address is logamn@yahoo.com
December 17th, 2008 at 3:05 am
Max Brooks, the author of the zombie survival guide is a comedian. The guide is great, but completly fictional. By the way, that egyptian ‘decapitation stone’ is really the Narmer Palette. the pictures depict the unification of upper and lower egypt, not zombie execution. just letting the readers know that this is all bs.
January 11th, 2009 at 10:34 pm
The Solanum virus is very plausible. But so far I personally have found no facts to back up its excistance. If anyone would like to share any info on this virus please leave a comment with the info and where you got it from.
January 16th, 2009 at 8:47 pm
this is so not real
January 24th, 2009 at 9:39 pm
this is all pure interpretation if you thing max brooks was serious than who knows? maybe he was maybe he wasn’t. The bottom line is there is no concrete evidence to support whither or not the virus is a “zombie” virus.
The guide makes sense in my opinion. It would be a good tool if this were to actually occur. No one is stupid for thinking that zombies could exist.
January 25th, 2009 at 8:26 am
keep saying its not real when a zombie bites ur arm
February 6th, 2009 at 5:18 am
The solanum virus can be transmitted in a number of ways. dont rule any sort of blood carrier out. mosquitos wood ticks and even some rats have potential to carry the virus. the virus solanum is known to come from the Mononegavirales family. mainly the virus is transmitted through a paritcular family known as the Ixodidae family of ticks. These tics often bite rodents such as mite or rats, and then the rodents transmit the virus to different areas of the country even the world. it is possible for a live infected rodent to board a large ship, it could bite one of the crew and the crew member would just spread it. the wood ticks posess this virus simply through natural processes, not from a certain source. they are infact bourn with it. these particular kind of ticks are found mostly throught the tropical regions close to the equator. This is the reason for the larger numbers of outbreaks in this area. since the ticks only deposit such a small amount of the solanum virus it is possible that the strongest human immune systems could fight it off before it does to much damage. those with weaker immune systems have a much greater chance of being infected by the virus. once the virus is succesful in transforming a human being, the zombie then transmitts much larger amounts of the virus through its bodily fluids, and infects more and more people until there is an outbreak.
email me at here if yu have any questions
dirttyteeth@msn.com ( its my band email)
ima boy im 15 my name is ino
February 19th, 2009 at 1:03 pm
this is complete bullshit you guys are so fucking stupid there could be an outbrake anywhere in time and you dumbasses joke about it so shut the fuck up and those pictures are fucking fake
March 8th, 2009 at 10:50 pm
Only problem with what u said Ino
is that insects and animals stay away from Solanum.
(Or at least the zombie)
April 4th, 2009 at 4:47 pm
well all of these comments should be atleast examined by max brooks himself i have read his book and it seems completely plausible. In my opinion i think its not a bad thing to be a little prepared for this out break god forbid or not i wouldent mind if this outbreak happend it seems exciteing. well im going to be prepared and ready
April 9th, 2009 at 11:06 am
This pics are fake, at least the captions under them, especially the one with the man being decapitated with a shovel, he wasn’t infected they were demonstrating how to kill a zombie. Also there is no cure for solanum so the brains and stuff didn’t lead to a cure, this article is retarded, if you need to know about zombies just read the guide… don’t believe stupid bullshit like this
April 16th, 2009 at 1:21 am
Sometimes comedians don’t know what they’re starting.
Max Brooks, as many people have mentioned here wrote The Zombie Survival Guide in the spirit of humour. He’s also written a new book World War Z, a good zombie read if ever there was one.
The Solanum virus is completely fictional. Brooks will attest to this. Zombification however, is not entirely without truth.
A reknowned Australian Scientist explains in full here: http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2004/12/09/1260445.htm
The general gist of it is that a person is nearly killed using a special posoin that slows breathing and heartrate such that the zombie-to-be appears dead. In the Carribean where these myths originate from, heat and inadequate facilities mean dead people get buried quickly to stop them decaying in the streets.
Within eight hours of being buried the unfortunate is exhumed and given a second drug. This drug fries the poor victims brain such that recent memories are erased, personality disappears, the person has no connection with reality. They are also highly suggestable in this state and are put to work as slave labour.
This was all found out because of one zombie, who managed to wander into Haiti while the drug gradually wore off and managed to recall enough of his childhood memories to identify himself to his little sister.
But the “muh braaaaains, BRAAAAAAINS” kind of zombies don’t really exist, just good television.
April 16th, 2009 at 1:26 am
Oh and a special note to the fifteen year olds who are still believing in a book that was written as a joke:
Lay off the late night tv and the crack, which actually contains similar neuro-chemicals to the one used in the Haitian zombification process.
I study neuroscience at the university of sydney. Which gives me a lot more credibility than those of you who would say “i’m lik totaly a profesro at harvord.”
April 19th, 2009 at 7:08 pm
Thanks for the explination Man wth a brain. That makes sense. But isnt there a possibility of a real zombie virus? At all? Obviously the book is fake, but it does pose an intresting question that could be answered by zombies. Like the entire colony disapearing from america, or the vikings never settling in greenland. Or why ancient native americans made “sacrifices” to the gods by severing the heads of people. Not to say, there are other explinations, but…
April 26th, 2009 at 9:01 am
There is no such thing. All of the evidence someone in this chat station has found about zombies was fake.
April 26th, 2009 at 9:08 am
I forgot if there are so called “real zombies” then with the brain pic how could the zombie brain just plop out unless threre were two zombies wait he/she would be dead and not a zombie right? ps..im so stupid.
April 26th, 2009 at 11:24 pm
Who gave any of you the power to say what is and isn’t real? The way I see it, everything is still undetermined, and furthermore, still entirely open to possibility.
I hope it does happen one day.
I’m not a scientist, I don’t have a degree from harvard, but I don’t need to be a friggin rocket scientist to know that we know less than 50%, probably even less than 25% of all there is to know about this planet currently.
We spring up new diseases every day, and one of these days there very well could be a virus that reanimates dead tissue. Afterall we do now have a “Swine Flu” epidemic happening currently. What will tomorrow bring?
I will say this though. It’s hilarious watching some of you get so emotionally invested in this situation that you resort to swearing at each other.
Yes, I am spiting all of you, yes, your all stupid, and yes, I hate all of you.
Go to hell everyone!
May 9th, 2009 at 12:06 pm
zombies could be real, they might not.. we dont exactly know.. my opinion is that i think they do or did exist and the government is hiding it, just like they hide everything else..
the virus could come from “salt water” or “nuclear radiation” but we really dont know
May 30th, 2009 at 2:46 am
Zombie who or what created it? and what purposes does it fulfill it has no solid beginning so why should we talk about it since it has no simple ending cause it’s like a undone story and there is 100% no cure so meaning humanity is done for.
So if some one survive this outbreak he/she will still be infected in the near future unless he/she get’s immunity.
Like hell the survivor will get immunity
May 31st, 2009 at 9:33 pm
ok so i love how everyone is talking smack about this zombie guide written by a comedian. you think comedians are never serious? people follow stupid stuff all the time *cough*scientology*cough* so compared to other things how is this absolutely with no questions NOT real? and “man with a brain” who gives a shit if your at a college? do you want a fcking cookie? all i know is ill be prepared.
June 9th, 2009 at 6:37 pm
wow. k first of all, to jason, tone it down. If u had any intelligence, then you’d see the truth and stop knocking every one here. I live in canada, and i saw an out break. Police claimed it was “insanity”, and was a racial killing, but the victims had gunshot wounds to the head. 2 people were missing, and the search party were all police men, and were packing rifles, and i swear i saw a sub machine gun.
Oh and if u say, im BSing, then you should take into account that it happened on my street. No media were allowed to join the search party, or film them while searching, but were allowed to film when they came back. There were 2 bodies with their heads covered and transported to an unrevealed location.
And it werent no ambulence either. it had federal markings
June 17th, 2009 at 8:41 am
Quote: Max Brooks, the author of the zombie survival guide is a comedian. The guide is great, but completly fictional. By the way, that egyptian ‘decapitation stone’ is really the Narmer Palette. the pictures depict the unification of upper and lower egypt, not zombie execution. just letting the readers know that this is all bs.
Maybe they united because of a Zombie infestation…
June 20th, 2009 at 1:04 am
Well If you ask me nobody has actually seen a zombie if so they need hard evidence. If this actually happens show it to the media not the govenment they will just hide it. And plus its a negitive on your part to…. they’ll think your crazy do some actual reasurch. And I have seen The zombie survival Guide…. At the back about the true storys…. Wheres the evidence if somebody finds me evidence theen Ill belive…. Iv noticed each one of those storys were a class 1….
June 25th, 2009 at 9:08 pm
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
MY ROFLCOPTER GOES SOISOISOSISOISOISOISOSIOSISOI
Had to be done. I absolutey believe in a possible zombie outbreak! This particular article? Maybe, maybe not. But what is the Swine Flu? Its a mixture of the human flu, the bird flu, and obviously a sickness you get from pigs. So one could say that a hybrid virus is created by chance or purposefully.
BTW I’m writing a book about ZOMBIES!!!! A fictional story, trilogy, and my personal idea is it was created underground by scientists who were hired by?????? You’ll see…maybe lol.
June 29th, 2009 at 3:05 am
who cares if its real ora joke if they can say theres a tadbit a roo id atleast by a medical kit and rations maybe a gun i just wanna be safe if itss real than the eole that are ready will live an the eole that think its fakell just see an maybe survive lus when im older yes ima cchild and i understand this im goin to move to dc were im sure ill be safe seeing as the goverment would defend that of all laces of the virus if real i believe it may be real or not shoot me idc its justa oinion dont swear at eachother for haing there own oinion if they didnt alota thing swouldnt be here and why d u think the us goverments hiding this wen we can readabnout it on the internet so easily and wichb goverment do u mean they all wouldnt be hididng it lus hat russian story is true they have debree and evidence im not saying zombies attacked them im jus sayin that jail was bombed im glad if u read this all the way thru if u wanna talk to me about this or share ideas add me on ms or email me just no sam that ima lying asshole im not its the fools on the internet that u may think are lying to me Sasori_Akusan@hotmail.com
July 7th, 2009 at 9:08 pm
*sigh* Better get weapons, stuff to barricade with, and a nice cold beverage. *sigh*
July 19th, 2009 at 10:28 am
funny at all the people going overboard and swearing/having a go at each other with this… haha i laugh at you…
funny also that half of you are claiming this is right or wrong..
first off….. this is fictional.. its meant to make people laugh.
IE: a JOKE
secondly, the outbreaks described are true.. at least the records of them are not altered as far as anyone can tell, though there is no saying if it happened.. was bullshit.. or someone just had a few too many shrooms and freaked out.
personally i would welcome a zombie outbreak, need a good crisis to kick in some natural selection to get rid of all the idiots around these days. And besides… id welcome a change from the day to day monotomy of work.
Oh and tristan.. sorry but i didnt read what you said.. mainly because your ONE HUGE FUCKING SENTANCE HURT MY BRAIN!!! not to mention the spelling
Zombies are real.. at least the voodoo kind which arent violent unless they get spooked.. like an animal.
However if you look at the complexity of a virus you could see that this is entirely possible, especially looking at how a virus enters a cell and uses it to make more copies of itself, but people.. this would have to be one serious virus.. eliminating the bodies need for oxygen is bullshit, if a virus uses the bodies organs and muscles for its own purpose (to reproduce/infect others) then it needs to follow the laws of the host body, unless the virus mutated enough to infect other organs and supply them with energy to function.
It is possible in ONLY that way, meaning ONLY if we get a virus that is not a virus.. it would have to be sentient.. to comunicate and reason with itself… and work together instead of jsut being a strand of DNA and simply doing what it is programmed to do. Somehow i dont see that happening and in all definaition it would not technically be a virus.
Only possibility is similar to the Rage virus.. something that changes a persons mind only… still needing sustainance, oxygen etc… but no longer relying on reason or anything jsut pure aggression and a need to feed. Not saying i believe in movies.. but this is the only explanation for the outbreaks recorded. Not being able to stop them with ann arrow or cutting off a limb witha sword may jsut be because for soem reason they do not feel pain… meaning they would keep coming for you but it would be entirely possible for one of these zombies to “bleed out”
The one person i agree with is chester… a cold beverage would go down nicely. ^^
and yes im THAT bored to write this
July 26th, 2009 at 10:39 am
Tristan,Go back 2 school you stupid child.
I think they are real, and if you want to survive,I have 3 options. option 1:Dig a hole and live underground with 2 entrances, just incase if the zombies break through the 1st 1.so you have a quick and efficient route.bring food and set up rations, and gather weapons.Option 2:go to a supermarket,Food,weapons, and good defenses. Set up rations as well just incase if there is loads of people with you.stick to your rations,afterall you cant predict how long you will be down there.Option 3: Go to a pub,Like shaun of the dead.Rations,Weapons,alternative entrances will ensure you will survive.
Also These places need plenty of electricity.
Peace out dawgs
July 29th, 2009 at 6:35 pm
i got words for you: Dingbats, Crackpots, Drips, Screwballs, Dumbells, Half-wits, Morons, J.A’s i don’t mean Junior Achievers. what the Hell are you guys talking about and showing people you guys need to stay from the pipe, and the crackbag ok. And stop filling people head with nonsense, that don’t make sense to anyone okay. see ya.
July 29th, 2009 at 11:45 pm
i think they should stop fucking around with it or they will just make it stronger by natuaral selection and adaptations as all things on our planet do and will eventually become immune to any force we have
August 4th, 2009 at 8:46 am
even if they have immune to the virus they still be eaten =.= alive so anyway i wanted to stop talking about this cause there is no point and no direction to this
August 5th, 2009 at 9:04 pm
yo this shit is whack
September 7th, 2009 at 3:42 pm
I have the zombie survival guide. its pretty cool
September 9th, 2009 at 4:31 pm
Based on some of the comments above, I think at LEAST 25% of the population must actually be insane. Certifiably crazy. No understanding of the reality they live in.
It’s called FICTION people. Zombies are FICTION. And you all are retarded, seriously.
September 10th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
this is absolutely crazy this is definitely going to happen. i have a plan ill be ready.
September 16th, 2009 at 5:19 pm
First off many of you are right n wrong n goffen off.
Seconed the canadian talked n no one responded to his posible clame. His story interested me but he should have used a camera or somthing.
Third it might not be a Virus but it could be a parasite. Ther is a virus or parasite cant remember but it infects an ant or snale also cant remember but then it take controle of the primitive brain and forces it to go to the top of grass then get eaten by a rabit then the rabits droppings are eaten by sed animals and the proses starts over.
4th who care if its real or not, be ready for the unknown and dont dismiss zombies becouse of the Z.S.G. and anoying kid you dont know the US gov at all.
Also what if the govs are some of you? haha.
last but not least aim for the head.
September 22nd, 2009 at 1:06 pm
I don’t think it’s necessarily a good idea to dismiss all of this as nonsense. Over the summer I discovered the following news article, and if this doesn’t sound like infection and reanimation then I don’t know what does.
In a bizarre parasitic death sentence, a fungus turns carpenter ants into the walking dead and gets them to die in a spot that’s perfect for the fungus to grow and reproduce.
Scientists have no clue how the fungus takes control of the brains of ants so effectively. But a new study in the September issue of the American Naturalist reveals an incredible set of strategies that ensue.
The carpenter ants nest high in the canopy of a forest in Thailand, and they trek to the forest floor to forage. The fungus, Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, prefers to end up on the undersides leaves sprouting from the northwest side of plants that grow on the forest floor, the new study showed. That’s where temperature, humidity and sunlight are ideal for the fungus to grow and reproduce and infect more ants.
Once infected by the fungus, an ant is compelled to climb down from the canopy to the low leaves, where it clamps down with its mandibles just before it dies.
“The fungus accurately manipulates the infected ants into dying where the parasite prefers to be, by making the ants travel a long way during the last hours of their lives,” said study leader David P. Hughes of Harvard University.
After the ant dies, the fungus continues to grow inside it. By dissecting victims, Hughes and colleagues found that the parasite converts the ant’s innards into sugars that help the fungus grow. But it leaves the muscles controlling the mandibles intact to make sure the ant keeps its death grip on the leaf.
The fungus also preserves the ant’s outer shell, growing into cracks and crevices to reinforce weak spots, thereby fashioning a protective coating that keeps microbes and other fungi out.
“The fungus has evolved a suite of novel strategies to retain possession of its precious resource,” Hughes said.
After a week or two, spores from the fungus fall to the forest floor, where other ants can be infected.
Making nests in the forest canopy might be an evolved ant strategy to avoid infection, Hughes figures. The ants also seem to avoid foraging under infected areas. This too might be an adaptive strategy to avoid infection, but more study is needed to confirm it, he said.
How the fungus controls ant behavior remains unknown. “That is another research area we are actively pursuing right now,” Hughes said.
September 29th, 2009 at 4:19 pm
I was actually just thinking about the carpenter ants myself and how that may be an alternative to the “sentient” virus that someone had mentioned. Currently it is unlikely there is a virus that makes people into the stereotypical movie zombies with the moaning and what not and if you believe those are the zombies we will see if a solanum type virus does occur you are gravely mistaken. in all likelihood the “virus” would be created in a lab perhaps on accident or perhaps by someone who is bent on causing mass destruction of human life and would also probably not be a virus at all but rather perhaps something along the lines of a fungus, bacteria, parasite, or even nanotechnology (and it is quite possible we will have plausible access to nanotechnology within the next 20 years) Other than that the closest thing we have to “zombies” are the people who are drugged and work in a trance-like state with all the capabilities of a normal human being save for an ability to have independent thought (hence why they can do little more than follow orders) all I can say is if worse comes to worse and a zombie outbreak does occur your better of completely destroying the body as a head shot to a “fungal zombie” wouldn’t do much.
September 29th, 2009 at 5:15 pm
This is not a dease it is a virus and it causes deformation in the brain ,witch causes all human relation to change barbaric,unfamilaiir,and there is no real cure besides amputation at the injection sight ,all forms of human behavior is erealivent.no one has seen a sign of this virus in a while,since acient times ,some believe as the mians predicted would be the end of the world in 2012,more comminly know as a zombie attack
-piper and david,the zombie experts
September 29th, 2009 at 5:17 pm
p.s. sorry for the misspelling
September 29th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
your talking about zombies not ANTS for the people above sorry common scence
September 30th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
if you have any questions about zombies just leave a comment i check every day (solanum to)
October 10th, 2009 at 11:45 pm
If this is true, think of the good implications. A disaster like this will finally bring all humans together against a common enemy. If it isn’t, it still stands, we all know we would need each other in order to survive. This promotes trust for your fellow human, in the end, we know we must meet our fate together. Unity is the real lesson. Regard me, disregard me, its your choice.
October 19th, 2009 at 8:22 pm
You guys this all makes since to me.
Humans are a species like any other. The only difference is that we are highly advanced. An apex predator, as some could say. As an example: Mountain lions, another predator, are preyed on by each other (for humans: criminals); other predators (humans: wild animals); and disease, which is the missing piece of the puzzle for humankind. Solanum, uncurable and deadly, could be that missing piece of the population control puzzle.
It could very well be real. I believe in it 100%, and I just really don’t care if you doubters think I’m nuts. I’ve heard it to the point where you can all just kiss my ass. Just don’t go shambling to me as an undead monster, I will blow your brains out.
October 28th, 2009 at 4:55 pm
I am not so sure if I believe in this virus I have heard about it fom many many people but still i dont really think that we will have a outbreak of it anytime soon….
December 4th, 2009 at 1:09 pm
Interesting subject. I would have to agree with the few people who said that while currently not probable, it would be silly to rule it out. Viruses mutate and change all the time. Look at the flu virus. It has, over the years, adapted because of flu anti-viruses, and made itself harder to kill. I do not think that it is outside of the realm of possibility that there could be a virus or other infectious entity that could cause something like the “Rage” virus from the movie 28 Days Later. While it is a little hard to swallow the idea of a reanimated corpse that is hell-bent on eating the flesh and brains of the living, I dont think that it is completely inconceivable that a human host could be infected by something that caused a sort of insanity or violent tendencies. I dont know, I guess time will tell.
December 13th, 2009 at 8:45 pm
the human body, nor mind can be altered in such a way of a “virus”. Granted it may make you feel out of sorts, but most of the scientists and medical pros that i work with all agree, radiation is the only thing that would be able to make this happen. But it is not the only thing involved. It is a lot like cancer, you need to have it in you to be triggered. It WOULD be air born for only the first 24-30 hours (depending on the wind). But after that, then yes, the bites, scratches (only if fluids can be swapped) and blah blah..Also.. the brain will not be the only way to kill a “zombie”.. dont put down the human heart! the heart pumps the blood which keeps the impulses in the brain active… if there is no blood, the brain cannot operate.. NO exception.
Enjoy, and do not seriously expect any zombies coming out anytime soon, the government has it fairly locked down out in the state of Ohio… if it goes down.. well.. i suppose the few of us left will have some fun
December 17th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
Ryan is really close to what i think. smart person you are.. everyone else seems to be in a pissing contest on what stupid drama is real an false. We have the viruses that could make it happen.. now we just need the radiation.. say from a nuke war? hmmmm. revelations much?
December 28th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
i can believe it. sure, call me naive but personally i think all you who dismiss the idea completely are small-minded. strange stuff happens all the time. the fact that you have convinced yourself zombies don’t exist a long time ago for your own sake doesn’t make this source any less credible. And for the picture that look fake, yes, they are fake. Why would they take a picture of the actual guys hand and how could they time the zombification of the archaeologist so that they could capture it? Would that be at all respectful to the archaeologist family? I’m not saying you have to believe it, what I’m saying is that you have to realize there is a possiblity. Come on people, expand your thinking.
January 4th, 2010 at 2:14 pm
not the end or 2012 sorry about that i wasent thinking sorry,
could be the end though
January 5th, 2010 at 6:36 pm
May I ask a couple of questions? First, why is it a requirement in most if not all states that a humans coffin be buried in a vault underground, if not to protect us from something. Also, why is it a requirement in most states that all blood be drained and replace with embalming fluid instead of just burying us as we were? Third, if there is no truth to the statements and therories here, why is it a proven fact thatunearthed bodies have shown signs of growth, such as finger and toe nails, hair, and other parts of the anatomy that should be dorment if not dead in the death of the body. Fourth, Isn’t there a little bit of truth in every work of fiction, some under lying fact to the therory. Hope that I’m not way off base by asking these question, but I’d like to know the fact and opinions of others
January 5th, 2010 at 7:11 pm
Solanum virus is the real deal!!! prepare for the Battle of ALL Mankind! A lot of you may think this is bull$h*t but trust those of you who are unprepared for this WILL be sorry. oh and incase you didnt know the picture of the guy that supposedly git the virus while esceveting is fake. i know what these creatures are like and that is not it!! never lose faith people, God is waiting! when the time comes, stay alert!!!
January 19th, 2010 at 2:50 pm
i belive the could be real or the can be fiction
February 1st, 2010 at 6:03 pm
Some say that microbes ( be it bacteria a parasite or some other scientific name for really little organisms) can and do live in the brain of most people. They cause little or no harm and are beleived to wait untill death to eat the fatty “sheaths” of the nerves that make up our brain. Be they dormant or active while people are alive I dont know. Hell I dont think they know sence whoed be willing to have their brain dicected while they are alive. Anyway point is they found that these “little guys” release chemicals into the brain while they feast/grow. However this is on a dead brain but they found that the brain cells werent damaged by it. This is probably do to the fact that they had to keep eating in the same area they deficate so their waste would lower how much “food” they can consume. But sence the brain is dead they have no idea what these released chemicals will do to the living brain. However this is all i heard or can remember on this. I cant remember where i heard it from. Might help if i havent smoked so much, but whatever. I can however speculate more on this. Every human should know that chemicals can alter brain activity and even form dependency(such as tobacco cocaine coffe huffing ect.). And have desently educated people should know that electrical signals and CHEMICALS is how our brain functions NORMALY. Think about it. What are hoarmones? What is adrenalin? What is endorfins( yeah im sure i didnt spell some of them right)? They are all chemicals. Anyway to get to the point, as you should be able to speculate further and if you cant go back to school, perhaps it is possible that these organisms in our brain can influence thought, emotion and actions at either their whims or as an unintened though seemingly harmless result of them being there. Now with that said regardless of whether or not what i heard is true there is still the fact that chemicals and electic signals are how the brain works. If a “virus” (more likely a parasite considering their nature) can figure out ways to control the brain and infect others the resulting “outbreak” would be zombie-like sence bitting would be a good method of transference. Provided it doesnt encloude air/waterborne transmition. But it should be curable. I mean we havent cured AIDS or Ifluenza but this should warrent enough attention. I mean the last thing you wanna do is kill family or friends that are infected then come to find out there is a cure or a possibilty of one just no one got off their rears to do anything about it. Is it possible, yes. Probable, no. Likeiness of this happening is like me movin to all the states with a lottary and winning first time go. Does that mean i dont have a contingence plan ,no i have one but it dont go nearly as far as buying spare wood to fortify my aptment. The extent of my planning falls under a more reallistic contingency plan which is what to do with a human unamred assailent. And thats grab something hard and hit em in the head. Hell all my plans to deffend myself include havin the upper hand( he got a knife i got a gun) if possible. Now fights that i get into with people i meet are another story. You talk/argue it leads to a fight then duke it out no need to try a kill someone over nothin. An assailent is someone that plans bodilyharm or worse so hittin them in the head is a good plan sence they wont always die and they deserve it anyway cause im not gonna sit idlely by while this nut case tries to hurt me and im sorry to the dumb family members that want “justice” for a family member that got killed tryin to hurt someone. WAIT, NO IM NOT!! You shouldve raised them better then that instead of making a human parasite!
P.S.
That picture of an arm clawing out the grave is fake as hell. You can buy faek limps like that to hang out of the trunk of your car and what not.
February 15th, 2010 at 7:52 pm
wel, this virus could be real, but even if it is, why would a virus that old crawl its way out of the grimy depths of time?? there needs to be more facts on the subject. but please, theres a better chance of a zombie appocalyse happening from the zombie powder that african necromancers use than this virus all of the sudden popping up in ….. oklahoma….. im mean im just spitballing here, but it dosent sound that convincing. and if im wrong every one who is against what i think can personally punch me as hard as possible in the face….. thank you and youve just been served……… ok that was stupid, but you get the point.
February 27th, 2010 at 10:20 am
First and foremost, I have to say that spelling and punctuation along this string is horrible.
Secondly, there are actually several strains of something called Solanum viruses that infect the Solanum genus of plants–whose relatives include the tomato and potato plants that we eat. So, to clarify that point, I’m not saying that some virus that makes zombies does or doesn’t really exist, but it’s not actually the Solanum virus that does it. Real Solanum viruses actually cause leaf curling, not zombies.
Lastly, as I scientist, I can’t rule out anything until I actually find proof that it doesn’t exist, so I’m not going to absolutely say that I don’t believe in zombies. I do have to say that a virus is far less likely to be the culprit than a manufactured drug. Viruses simply don’t work that way. Man-made drugs have far more potential to create something similar, but it would still likely require the body to work in largely the same way it does currently; therefore, a zombie would be far easier to kill than the movies would have you believe. I’ll always be prepared for whatever may come, but I just wouldn’t worry quite so much.
March 1st, 2010 at 10:07 pm
Honestly everything about this virus is a lie. There is no virus that turns you into a zombie. However, I am one to keep an open mind. Maybe there is such a virus, maybe a zombie apocalypse will happen in the future (NO, NOT 2012). In this world anything is possible. I’ll be honest, I will be terrified when the dead rise from the grave (As the bible depicts. A book that sooooo many people claim is true) but it will add some serious excitment to our world.
March 3rd, 2010 at 6:27 pm
I dont really think that zombies exist but the sovits are trying to creat the virus to spread over our country and turn our clivized people into canables that want to eat you and bite you and turn you into one and then you will eat your own kind SO BE CAREFUL ABOUT WHO YOU TRUST OK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
March 4th, 2010 at 3:29 am
between solar flares, planet x entering the solar system, extreme weather and natural disasters. a zombie apocalypse would be something i would welcome. cuz its a manageable situation. weather we do or do not live in the end of days. 2 thigns are for certain.
the Christians fucked us all with the dark ages. burning and losing all the tech and history they didnt like. so lets give them a hand.
and 2 this world is fucked up. and all human life is to the earth is a parasite. you are all insects. like crab lice.
bring on the apocalypse. bring on the zombie crusades
March 4th, 2010 at 1:27 pm
To everyone that says that this is bull, It very well may be but wouldnt you feel really foolish if it did happen and you were the first to get your ass munched.
better to be safe then sorry I all ways say!
even if the book is fulse there are guide lines to keep you from ending up a zombie and I think that’s worth the read
March 7th, 2010 at 11:04 pm
I wish I could go back in time BEFORE “the zombie survival guide” was written and see the information about it before then.
March 12th, 2010 at 2:11 pm
I think I read that the only way it can be transferd from plants to humans is through the plant’s contact with an open wound
April 1st, 2010 at 9:20 am
Guys I study Egyptology at university and this is definately not true!!! Are you all on crack!!!!! It would probably be put on the syllabus and none of my teachers have mentioned it! Yes it is i a serious publication but archaeologists do have a sense of humour you know, they are aren’t all stiff upper lipped english people who look like Howard Carter! Renee Friedman is a respected Egyptologist but cant he have a joke once in a while, also, getting some guy in on the act who wrote an article on vampire blood (check the bibliography) doesnt make this legit!!!!If it was don’t you think every news crew in the world would be swarming around Hierakonpolis looking for zombies?!!! Considering most tombs are robbed in antiquity any tom dick or muhammed could have robbed the place and messed up a few of the tomb reliefs. The hand thing is just a joke and so it the brain, when you take pics of artefacts be they biological or non biological you would present them in a way that is fit for publication. The label accompanying the brain is almost illegible. You wouldnt publish that!!!! Grab a bucket of pop corn and settle down coz this seems more like an idea for a corny b movie horror than anything real!!!!
April 2nd, 2010 at 2:44 am
The book makes sense. And just because you’ve never seen a zombie, doesn’t mean they don’t exist. I mean, nobody has ever seen “god” but a shit-ton and a half of people believe he’s there. I personally think that it will happen one day. and the government will just keep lying and trying to cover it up ’til it’s too late. Then they’ll probably just nuke everything. That’s what they do.
April 3rd, 2010 at 2:08 pm
Warum glauben einem die Leute sofort, wenn man ihnen sagt, dass es am Himmel 400 Billionen Sterne gibt, aber wenn man ihnen sagt, dass die Bank frisch gestrichen ist, müssen sie draufpatschen?
April 7th, 2010 at 12:59 pm
Can I use the Solanum virus in a book I’m writing about zombies. It’s a love story.
April 24th, 2010 at 4:54 am
i think the book is just keeping us on our toes we should take most things seriously, like any sickness resulting in killing of the ill should b a major red flag.as fo the solanum virus i think it is a code he uses so peps wont freak out too bad because that would b chaos look up virus in Ukraine.u wont sleep 4 weeks.
April 24th, 2010 at 4:03 pm
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April 24th, 2010 at 4:19 pm
I believe in zombies..I wonder if there might be zombies in 2012?? I wishh!
April 28th, 2010 at 11:08 am
you people need to stop talking about evidence and start planning what your going to do if or when it happens.
May 7th, 2010 at 11:41 am
Guys cmon i cant tell if there is zomies or not but im saying if there was zombies whe would know trust me
the undead isint real there is no such thing as the walking dead its just a storie for a good movie thats all
May 11th, 2010 at 2:42 am
Ya watch the news lately and see new flues popping up all over, people killing their families with no remorse, and government cover ups that are exposed many times, and all make us go wow. A zombie virus could or couldn’t happen but if it did the most logical sequence of events could be very simple.
Theoretical application to the virus:
1: joint pain and irritability(psychologically)
2: respiratory complications
3: fever and delirium(virus starts attacking the brain)
4: patient slips into an almost catatonic state and all functions fall to the bare minimum levels possible
5: logic/reasoning goes out the window when the body suddenly reboots itself
6: patient has been reduced mentally to the level of an angry cannibalistic state
7: the body now infected carries the virus in his/her/both gendered person(don’t wanna offend anyone) saliva and blood.
8: patient zero bites ’soon be patient’, new person repeats process of patient zero.
but hey, who knows really, it’s all hypothetical. All i have to say is show me the virus and i will show you napalm and ten foot spiked clown pole.
May 12th, 2010 at 9:19 pm
So if this virus can supposedly make the corpse not need blood or ATP to function, and it preserves the brain, why can’t it also allow the zombie to fly or instintively know kung-fu??
May 13th, 2010 at 4:41 pm
alright zom. could suk my cock there NOT REAL so dont be scared cuz zombies r retarded just like ur IQ
May 20th, 2010 at 3:09 pm
1. animals cannot transmit solanum. if u paid attention when reading the book you would find that it says animals and insects reject infected meat 100% of the time and whe they find it, the go the other way
2. solanum or some other virus that can make you a zombie is more than possible. zombies are more common then you think, there are vodoo zombies, caused by chemicals attacking the brain, there are people that have recived brain damage, and many others
3. a goverment cover up is more than possible, many things have been covered up in the past. roswell is a huge example.
4. just because this egyptian thing is a hoax, doesnt mean zombies are. many people lie about being abducted by aliens, this may or may not be true, some are found out to be lies but aliens havent been cast down as lies have they?
5. just because the book is labelled “fiction” doesnt make the whole zombie idea a lie.
i think there is too much evidence pointing towards zombies being real for anyone to say that there not
May 27th, 2010 at 3:26 pm
i have a thought that this might be real zombies or no zombies you always have to be prepared for every little thing anything could happen this could actually be a virus from zombies but who knows any scientist in the world could be studying this solanum virus everyone should be prepared when you hear these kind of things.people do believe this could just be any ordinary virus in the world anything could happen trust mee!!
June 5th, 2010 at 7:50 pm
hey well i think the virus is possible ,and don’t find anything wrong with having an open mind to a simple theory of a virus.
secondly i was watching in the news of people in china that were killing kids in a child facility this happened 3 times and now-one got actual answers to who did it and why. you didn’t hear about the attackers going to jail or the funeral of the children ,Or the reaction of the parents and the community.
and then i remembered how max brooks said most of the time they will hide evedence of zombie attacks.
oh yea one last thing some of you guys really DO HAVE TO CHILL OUT. THEY ARE JUST COMMENTS AND IDEAS!
and if you really don’t believe in this the slightest bit why are you on the website in the first place?
June 9th, 2010 at 3:26 pm
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June 12th, 2010 at 10:07 pm
Pictures are fake. The “brain” up there is a load of crap. Any educated person knows that the eyes and brain are the first thing to decompose on the body.
June 13th, 2010 at 1:36 am
The zombie apocolypse is totally possible. Very, very imporobable, but possible. With all the drugs, over processed food, hormones in everything we eat, chemicals for keeping our food fresh and what not. Not to mention, possible nuclear war and biological warfare. Maybe the whole thing wouldn’t be so much a re-animation of dead tissue, just a massive DNA mutation. We are doing it to ourselves.
Look at the technology and drugs we have today, imagine what the government has that we don’t even know about yet. They keep secrets, believe me. So maybe it will be a chemical weapon, or a drug they are developing, for good or evil. In todays drug market, the side effects are worse than the thing you are trying to cure. Anti depressants may cause suicidal thoughts or actions for crying out loud. Maybe one day, they discover that a side effect of one drug is aggressiveness and cannabalism. Who knows? Ill be ready if it happens, there could be worse things…..
June 14th, 2010 at 12:45 pm
What i am wondering is what is the big deal with all the nonbelievers. I say prepare for it either way. Get your weapons and food in place because most of the stuff that you would need for a zombie attack you also need for other emergencies. i mean some of you nonbelievers get as mad at someone who believes in zombies as christians get at someone who doesn’t believe in god. not everyone has the same views about everything. all i know is that when the day comes i will be there with my shotgun and sword.
June 28th, 2010 at 11:41 am
you also gotta have some entertainment. get like board games or something because the moans of the zombies as well as the feeling of isolation will drive you insane
June 29th, 2010 at 12:38 am
If you are reading this, and you want to slam people because you don’t think there is a shred of truth to any of this, you should find a new hobby. Expanding on what Sam said earlier; a hell of a lot of people believe in god with just as much, if not less, evidence given to them as these people are given about zombies. Neither have been disproven, so I say let the people believe whatever thay want to because it doesn’t hurt you.
I personally believe that there is at least a small amount of truth to “zombies,” even if they aren’t what most people beleive them to be. Even if they are bogus, a stocked and barricaded house duals as a safe place to stay when the next riots hit in a couple of years. I don’t believe in a 2012 doomsday, but quite a lot of people do, and I bet a lot of them will go crazy thinking that their time is running short. Just giving you guys my prediction. You decide for yourselves
One last thing. To those special people who want to slam whatever I just said and kept reading after I told them to get a new hobby: We’ll see who will be alive when shit hits the fan. I put my money on the people who are going to get ready and not your sorry asses.
July 6th, 2010 at 4:03 am
solanum : type genus of the Solanaceae: nightshade: potato
idk if its true its very confusing but i heard theres a new virus out that might be one
July 9th, 2010 at 4:54 pm
Is it not strange that a wbsite like http://www.archaeology.org would put up fake information. If it is real or rumors from the population in egypt, the fackt still about the walls where the corpse have been scratching. Information about the marks from the walls that was from the body itself after the person was dead. Thats freaky.
We have to take it as it is. There has been plenty of weard illness and viuses that this old one based on potato “Solanum Virus” might been old. Potatos has been existing for a long time and there are reccords, but unbelivible ones.
We just have to wait if there will be a new outbreak to see the truth.
If not a new outbreak appers, then the article from http://www.archaeology.org is just a lie based on a taboo.
July 9th, 2010 at 5:35 pm
why are people who claim to be university professors and such wasting their time trying to convince random internet people their opinions? ever hard of ignorance is bliss? let them have ther fun.
i wont personally give an opinion, i jut agree with the few who say we need to thin out the human population.
when/if(oh boy get excited to respond to this one!) global warming hits it will take a lot of used land. we could use some thinning out.
and for all those im giveing out 300$ to who can make the cleverest name on this site so start thinking! and you KNOW this 300$ prize is real right? of course! some guy with apparent crdentials said it on a chat room on the internet…
July 28th, 2010 at 6:26 am
im still reading the book and i think its all true i hope an outbrake would happen i dont hope i wish it would happen and if it dose happen i will be ready think of it an outbrake in chicago
July 28th, 2010 at 6:35 am
if an outbrake happend i would be a lone wolf killing everyone and everything i see with my ak 47 with armor-piercing rounds the first thing i would do would be to find and killl lady gaga
July 28th, 2010 at 9:47 am
ghosts can be not real… But zombies can be real…. Science has proved that many organisms exist. The human has fought to become the dominant specie on earth… It’s a fact zombies can be real but it’s not a certainty.
July 30th, 2010 at 11:16 am
There have been real outbreaks in small towns in Europe. I was actually vacationing in one of these towns. Funny thing Solanum is a virus for plants. Scientists in the US are trying to figure out what causes the dead to rise. But the pictures up there are fake.
August 1st, 2010 at 5:12 pm
do i win the name contest?!?!?
and for all of you idiots please spell properly; its hard to read.
thanks!
August 2nd, 2010 at 10:47 am
ive read the zombie survival guide and the reason why it could be is because of biological warfare from terrorists who found the diesease, made 1 of the terrosrists a “zombie” and the infected turned on them because all they think of is rage and the virus is just like the plauge it is not airbourne or waterbourne only through bites it can spread
August 11th, 2010 at 9:42 am
Ok first off Zombie infections by nukes?
I have heard a lot about viruses parisites infections etc
but radiation? Plausible
and Realy nuke wars. Your talking fallout 3 there.
Also I have Looked into this subject for a while and while reading through this I only have one thing to say…..
They are Possible
and that is not a opinion that is a fricken fact
Im glad some people can use fricken common sense instead of other assholes Drunks and possibly 7 yr olds
I agree with all those people like man with a brain
others are like*Ahem* iTs inposible z0mbehs r n0t r3al 1m g0nna g3t h1gh n0w
And I am 12 years old and yes surprising is it.
and zombielover
What happens when you run out of bullets huh if they sneak up on you and lady gaga seriously and how would you survive get ammo food water etc
so you 15 yr old idiots get off the page
August 13th, 2010 at 10:14 pm
<3s this fake ass bullshit ^
August 21st, 2010 at 3:54 pm
ok u people are just virgins.. who in the world is stupid enough to believe this bull shat anyways? ive read the book by max brooks, and there has never ever EVER been a reported case of zombie outbreak in the world.. dumbasses.
i used to think that ppl in america were smart.. but no, the media, and the ppl with a low intellegence quotient dont have anything better to do than spread retarded stuff. The closest thing to zombies is rabies.. which only occurs in dogs, racoons, cats, etc… i have never quite honestly been so mad as to how people really believe this shit
August 21st, 2010 at 6:35 pm
God people get a life zombie are not real….The closes thing to a zombie is my ex-wife…. You wackos have my son thinking there are zombies….. My god spend my tax money on things that matter….I don’t know but i think you all should be put in a padded room……..
thanks
August 21st, 2010 at 6:40 pm
Well max i think you and I are 2 of the most smartest ppl the this world but max if you see a zombie txt me and we can kill it together…. It would be fun…. but max I you turn into a zombie I am sorry my friend I will have to kill you and i would exspect the same from you if it was me….