The zombie apocalypse won't take long.
A
new article in a peer-reviewed student journal finds that the zombie
hordes would take Earth's population down to a mere 273 survivors in 100
days.
The
paper, published in the University of Leicester's Journal of Physics
Special Topics, was a fanciful use of the so-called SIR model, which is
used in epidemiology to simulate how diseases spread over time. It's not
the first time zombies have been used as a public health metaphor. In December 2015, for example, the British medical journal The Lancet published a tongue-in-cheek paper
titled "Zombie infections: epidemiology, treatment, and prevention."
And a viral blog post from the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention urged zombie-apocalypse preparations as a a metaphor for real-life disaster preparedness.
In
the new analysis, the University of Leicester undergraduates assumed
that each zombie would have 90 percent success at finding and infecting
one human per day — a rate that would make the zombie virus twice as
contagious as the Black Death, the plague that devastated Europe in the
1300s. [Zombie Animals: 5 Real Cases of Body-Snatching]-Read More
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